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...Massachussetts fishing town whose population is obscenely corrupted by intermingling with a race of fiendish undersea creatures. Learning all this, the narrator attempts to flee. On the outskirts of town, he looks back and sees his pursuers "in a limitless stream-flopping, hopping, croaking, bleating, surging inhumanly through the spectral moonlight in a grotesque, malignant saraband of fantastic nightmare...
...plays and musicals ranged over Coward's entire spectrum of talent and taste from the faintly wicked ménage à trois of Design for Living to the spectral fantasy of Blithe Spirit, from whipped cream operettas like Bitter-Sweet to music hall antics like Tonight at 8:30 (with Gertrude Lawrence) from Kiplingesque tunes of glory in Cavalcade to the hilarious battle royal of the sexes, Private Lives. In the film Brief Encounter, Coward even dropped his customary mask of urbane detachment to record a tenderly poignant tale of middle-aged love...
...stage is a hexagon, not much larger than a cockfighting pit. Four playgoers apiece are seated in wire-meshed chicken-coop enclosures. Visually, the audience becomes ghostly to itself, a spectral collection of selves in limbo, seemingly bodiless...
...find a ghost is that most earth-bound of educational institutes, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Nonetheless, several cadets swear that they have recently seen visions of a 5 ft. 3 in. soldier in full Jackson-era regimentals, complete with shako and musket. The thought of spectral shenanigans on hallowed military ground has officials of the Point scratching their well-clipped heads in perplexity...
...human vision), green and red. Transmitted separately back to earth, these colors can be combined to produce eerie multicolor photographs that are highly informative. ERTS owes its perceptive ability to the fact that every object, living or inanimate, emits, absorbs or reflects light in a highly characteristic way. Such spectral "signatures" are especially distinctive in infrared. ERTS, for instance, uses its infra-red sensors not only to identify crops in an area but also to tell something about their development and health...