Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That same evening, in high romantic style, a clandestine radio transmitter sent a cryptic message crackling across the Caribbean: "Alert! Alert! Look well at the rainbow. The first will rise very soon. Chico is in the house. Visit him. The sky is blue. Place notice in the tree. The tree is green and brown. The letters arrived well. The letters are white. The fish will not take much time to rise. The fish is red. Look well at the rainbow...
...similarly uncharacteristic canvas is a pastoral landscape by Van Gogh-the placid Plain at Auvers. It is a subtle study of pale blues and greens in which plowed fields and few trees lie under a sky that hardly swirls as much as the one in Francesco Guardi's gently shaded Venetian Scene...
None of this was surprising to space scientists. Everything the first cosmonaut reported had been suggested earlier by the instruments of unmanned satellites or by earthbound theory. The narrow blue band that Gagarin saw was the familiar color of the clear sky-the blue component of sunlight that the atmosphere scatters upward into space as well as toward earth. Still, all such details held a fresh fascination: they were part of a firsthand observation, an eyewitness confirmation. They belonged to a tale told by an adventurer into the unknown, and if they added little to man's knowledge, they...
...Nobody Is Leaving!" Out of a clear sky, as the film begins, a helicopter appears over Rome. Beneath it, on a cable, dangles a heroic gilded Christ, his arms outstretched. Just another adman's bright idea? Or is it "The Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven . . . the sign . . . of the end of the world"?* With that striking scene begin the days of wrath, the seven nights of destruction prefigured in the Revelation of St. John the Divine...
...electronic composers usually achieved their effects with a single speaker; now they have four-track tapes, permitting the use of multiple speakers. Says Cologne's Otto Tomek: "We recently installed 30 speakers around four walls, which gave the impression of a firmament of sound like stars in the sky. It was like being inside a big bell. There is so much to explore with music in space that we will be busy for years...