Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the starlight scope's relative simplicity, the Army's Night Vision Laboratory at Fort Belvoir, Va., had to spend countless hours and $20 million on the design before it was ready for production. One particularly nagging problem was the difficulty of transmitting the image from one stage to the next without excessive distortion or loss of light. Army researchers, under Electrical Engineer Robert S. Wiseman, known as "Mr. Night Vision" to his colleagues, overcame that hurdle by using fiber optics. These unusual lenses are made up of bundles of extremely thin glass fibers, each of which transmits...
...agile as a marmoset, and a sharp-toothed incessant talker. The talk is hushed as chanting begins in the rear of the theater. With measured tread, the Sacred College advances down the two long aisles in a swirl of scarlet and incense. As the cardinals reach the stage, they pause before the bishop and the priest: "Wilt thou accept pontificality?" Rolfe turns to kneel to his bishop, so unexpectedly chosen, only to find that the prelate is already kneeling to him. "Wilt thou accept pontificality?" The bishop whispers: "The answer is 'Volo' or 'Nolo...
...battle at El Alamein and had the superiority to win others. Moreover, though Field Marshal Rommel was a sick and dispirited man commanding a weakened army, Churchill revived the myth of the invincible Desert Fox so that Monty would have to deal with a worthy foe. Even with the stage so cleverly set, Thompson charges that Monty still fought a static, overly cautious battle, sacrificing far too many...
...Well, Bulgakov in the early 1920s did work for the magazine of the Railwaymen's Union and did write a novel (The White Guard), the beginning of which was serialized in the last two issues of a dying literary journal. And Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theater did stage a version of the novel in 1926. But the play, retitled The Days of the Turbins, was a success...
Finally, Cunningham believes in the interest-ingness of the ordinary world with its chance patterns of movement. At one point last Sunday, the dancers appeared on stage with street clothes covering their leotards. The stage manager wandered on stage, looking more like a dancer than any of the troupe who were resting on stage in a variety of comfortable "Not Dance" positions. The dancers meandered on and off stage. The bewildered audience was at times presented with no dancers, just the transparent and decorated plastic envelopes of the set, and the rattle of the score. One by one the audience...