Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down will come the sky...
Today Boudin's skies are as sunny as the day they were painted, and the sea off Normandy sparkles as freshly. In his canvases, crinolined ladies titter and talk on a fully dressed visit to the beach as he first viewed them with his fresh, unassuming eye. A lone clammer trudges to his early morning task while the grey sky pushes its bleakness into the sands. Boudin pursued all the moods of the sea-except mist, for that would have inhibited his view of the sky...
...meteoroids that heat into shooting stars as they plunge through the upper atmosphere. Most years, hardly anyone notices. Only astronomers and dedicated amateurs take note of the few brief, blazing arcs that make up the "Leonid showers," named for the constellation Leo, which appears behind them in the sky. This week the celestial fireworks promise to be far more gaudy than usual. Instead of half a dozen or so meteors per hour, the count in the early morning of Nov. 17 may number hundreds or even thousands...
Astronomers are hoping for a spectacle reminiscent of 1833, when about 10,000 meteors per hour were visible over the eastern U.S. at the peak of the shower. That year, awed viewers, aroused from sleep by the bright flashes, described shooting stars "falling from the sky like snowflakes." Many thought that the end of the world had come...
...night of Sept. 19, 1961, Barney Hill and his wife Betty were driving home to Portsmouth, N.H., after a holiday in Montreal. A brilliant waxing moon sailed through a cloudless and star-fretted sky. As the Hills watched, first idly and then in terrified astonishment, one of the stars detached itself Tom the firmament and came down to earth-so near that the Hills could see it was no star. What happened thereafter forms the narrative of this book...