Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACE ODYSSEY. Director Stanley Kubrick sets out to define man's past and describe his future with a combination of visual pyrotechnics and subtle metaphysics...
...silent for half a year. After undergoing a successful operation for a benign brain tumor last winter, he has been teaching at Fordham University but making no outside speeches or public pronouncements. Instead, he has been working on two books to be published next fall: Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting, which he co-authored with Harley Parker, and War & Peace in the Global Village...
Heart of the starlight scope is its image-intensifier tube, a sturdy combination of the home TV screen and miniaturized space-age electronics. Focused sharply by the scope's front lens, the slightest flickers of light are directed against a chemical film, causing it to discharge electrons. Boosted along by a 15,000-volt electrostatic field, those electrons smack into a phosphorcoated screen whose light then jars loose still another flock of electrons. The process is repeated three times, and the high-voltage electron acceleration, or energy buildup, produces a progressively brighter image. Besides the light, the only other...
...persuaded most astronomers that pulsars are not white dwarfs (small, dying stars). And although British pulsar discoverers initially nicknamed them LGM (little green men), most astronomers have now given up the idea that the four known pulsars might somehow be powerful electronic beacons from a super civilization in distant space. Still in the running is the notion that they may be neutron stars: tiny bodies of densely packed neutrons, which are atomic particles having no electrical charge. The only thing that seems reasonably certain is that the pulsars are not much larger than Earth and are 50 to 400 light...
...EXAMPLE, as Calvin Tomkins noted in the May 4 issue of the New Yorker, Cunningham believes that movement and sound function independently in a dance. As John Cage puts it, they merely coincide in Space-Time. So at one premiere night the Cunningham troupe heard the score for the piece for the first time. A dance, according to Cunningham, does not mean anything that can be translated into words or music. It has no explicitly dramatic or psychological content. Particular movements may evoke emotional responses in the audience, but these responses will vary from person to person. Cunningham is interested...