Word: skies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Named after the Beatles' song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Lucy was a small creature, not much more than a meter tall, with a brain capacity about a third that of modern man. Lucy's skeleton gave scientists their best clues yet to the proportions of Australopithecus, and revealed her to be surprisingly short-legged. But the find left no doubts that she walked erect. The shape of her pelvis showed clearly that she was bipedal...
...Alabama newspaper interview, received a death threat and had to be whisked away for two weeks. Dillon's son received a kidnaping threat that brought in the FBI. Then, late one night, shooting halted abruptly so that everyone could observe what Spielberg believed to be a UFO cruising the sky. "Everyone was lying there on their backs with binoculars," says Dillon. "I remember thinking that if there were extraterrestrial beings up there observing us, they would think that earth creatures were flat beings with strange eyes." The object turned out to be an Echo satellite...
...sky has dropped a lot of rain on Cambridge this fall but the women's cross-country team has shone, dropping just one race all season. The fledging runners quickly got their legs in this, their second year of competition...
...only one of Malet's works on exhibit here that doesn't include a body of water, but it too is spectacular quite out of proportion to its size (21" by 25 1/2"). Again there is a skillful use of both transparently bright colors and sludge-heavy ones; the sky is a gold-tinged pink in stark contrast to the dark tree silhouetted in the foreground. The landscape in the background is lavenderhued without the musty scent...
...players in the frantic final minutes, Lasorda replied: "I didn't say anything to Davalillo. I didn't say anything to Mota. I didn't say anything to anybody. I was only talking to God." But when God is the Great Dodger in the Sky, that's all the talking Tommy Lasorda needs...