Word: skywards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three Angels of the Lord, smites Sodom in triplicate, terrorizing hordes of extras, who, as usual, do their best to make transcendental evil shine through gaudy sequins and gobs of purple eye shadow. Any characters who are at all respectable converse with a vengeful Deity mainly by lifting eyes skyward, and the pauses throb with crashing drums, heavenly choirs and bird song-everything, in fact, but a bouncing ball to help the audience pray along. Better read The Book...
...artists' colony and used to anything; but even the lethargic sunbathers blinked open their eyes and squinted when a rock-'n'-roll band moved onto the beach and began blasting away in the hot afternoon sun. Then, in quick succession, giant, helium-filled balloons took off skyward, a red smoke bomb exploded, and from a plane overhead four hired sky divers plummeted downward. The doings brought crowds running from all along the beach, but Kaprow was unhappy: "I was looking for more surprises, and everything came out very orderly." It almost didn...
...pastor of two country churches in Denmark's North Sea province of West Jutland, the Rev. Eilif Krogager, 56, has worked for 31 years to set the feet of his parishioners firmly on the road to heaven. Unlike other clerics, Krogager can also send his flock skyward by jet: he runs a tourist agency that is the fastest growing in all of Scandinavia. His Tjaereborg Travels this year will do a $30 million business booking trips for 170,000 people, including 10,000 leaving this week for Western and Southern Europe and North Africa. Through ten subsidiary companies, Tjaereborg...
...four different nights, after walkie-talkie-equipped lookouts radioed that campus guards were out of sight, the students slipped out of the tunnel, lit the flares, and launched their experiment. As the balloons soared skyward, wind caught the fins on the dangling rods and started the burning flares rotating like slowly twirling beacons...
...Carnegie Institution fellowship. With it he gained entrée into the stimulating atmosphere of Pasadena's California Institute of Technology, and access to the fabulous astronomical complex in Southern California. There, all within easy driving distance of Los Angeles, the world's greatest telescopes point skyward. Atop Mount Palomar is the 200-in. Hale telescope and a 48-in. Schmidt (no relation) wide-angle scope. On Mount Wilson is a 100-in. telescope, one of the world's largest, and a 60-in. instrument that would be the pride of most other observatories. The twin...