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...almost destroyed her brother; appalled by the power of darkness in her life, she longs for salvation. Voices lure her into "another world," promising that there she will see God. All at once, in her mind's delirious eye, she does see God. He is an enormous spider. She is carried off to a madhouse...
...more eyes (electrical light sensors ) than any spider. When it went into orbit, some of the eyes searched for the sun. and nitrogen discharged from a bottle in the drum moved the drum's axis until it was perpendicular to the sun's direction. Next, a motor on the central shaft started turning the sail so that its solar cells pointed steadily...
There is no doubt that the spider population has been decreased tremendously by spraying," stated Herbert W. Levi, Associate Curator of Arachnology, but it will take about a year before we know whether they have been completed exterminated...
...devastating lie: she tells her grandmother that she has seen the two teachers embracing. Here Wyler's notion of registering childish malevolence is to have twelve-year-old Actress Balkin roll her eyes, scowl, bare her teeth and jerk her head back like a duchess regarding a spider, every time she is on-camera. To make sure no one misses the significance of those moments when the girl is hatching her nastiness, Wyler underscores with vibrant significance music. Composer Alex North's score, a banality that would seem gross in a John Wayne picture...
Dean Watson and the Masters of the Houses agree that the spider incident "has solved Harvard's time-honored space problem," and the Administration substitutes a new concept for the old formula of expansion: "liquidation." ...Harvard purchases the MTA yards and President Pusey declares himself "pleased as punch and proud as a peacock," and promises to start construction of a temple within a year. "I think we have never owned so much rolling stock before," he says.... McGeorge Bundy resigns from the Metropolitan Club in Washington. "This has nothing to do with principle, the food there is simply awful...