Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Look! Up in the sky! It's . . . uh . . . Muammar Gaddafi? Charles Manson? An Eskimo...
...some link to those people who first halted on the tallgrass prairie and sank their plows. Writes Author John Madson, an eloquent native Iowan: "Grassland of such magnitude was wholly alien to the western European mind. It diminished men's works and revealed them to a vast and critical sky, and forced people into new ways of looking at the land and themselves and changed them forever...
Primeval galaxies resembling the objects Elston found have been postulated by astronomers since the late 1960s. Most scientists regard the fact that he stumbled over the reddish sources of light within a randomly chosen tiny section of sky as evidence that the galaxies actually exist. Reason: similar bodies "should be all over the place," as Elston puts it, in our galaxy- filled universe. Moreover, Elston and his team took a second look at the suspected galaxies without the aid of the infrared device and found them about 20 times fainter in ordinary, visible light. The difference in brightness...
...high is up? It might be better to ask how high movie ticket prices can rise, because the sky seems to be the limit. In December two theater chains raised prices from $6 to $7 at 48 screens in Manhattan. That follows a jump from $5 (or $5.50) to $6 in the spring of 1985 and means New Yorkers are paying perhaps 40% more than they were 2 1/2 years ago for their Saturday night at the movies...
...accommodate Caucasian visitors. Before the group descends, Hai recites the tunnel dwellers' motto: "When you walk without footmarks, when you talk without a sound, when you cook without smoke, that is how you survive." After a few -- interminable -- minutes most visitors are eager for a peek at the sky. "I see the light at the end of the tunnel," says Kevin McKiernan, 43, of Santa Barbara, sardonically echoing the phrase from two decades earlier that became a derisive wartime cliche. As the van pulls away from the site, children born a decade after the last G.I. had packed his gear...