Word: staging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Often Martin strolls on stage with the air of a guy who has just peeled out of a bar and is looking for a little action-blonde, brunette or otherwise. And Rowan, try as he may, cannot keep his partner's mind off sex. When he frets about Martin's frail appearance and advises, "For your own good, you should pick up some weight," Dick leers: "Shoulda been with me last night...
...final draft-having grown to 235 pages, or about three times as large as the customary script for a one-hour comedy show-is ready. The cast gathers around a table in the studio for a read-through. After two days of casual rehearsal, they head for the stage for two twelve-hour days of taping. The only audience present consists of staffers, office boys, secretaries, members of families. The laughter on the show is canned and carefully metered out to exploit each line...
...astronauts will also at tempt to rendezvous with the burnt-out final stage of their launch rocket, using only a sextant and a telescope for direction finding; the Apollo command module is not equipped with rendezvous radar. During their week-and-a-half space journey, they will start Apollo's large, 20,500-lb.-thrust engine eight times to test its reliability. That engine literally means the difference between life and death. On actual moon missions, it will be used to guide an Apollo spacecraft into orbit around the moon, and, later, to fire the craft out of lunar...
...planning to upstage the U.S. by sending the first manned craft around the moon, NASA has folded a spectacular bonus into Apollo 8's schedule. If all goes well with Apollo 7, Apollo 8 will be shoved from earth orbit to ward the moon by the last stage of its Saturn 5 launch rocket...
...stage is empty, in semidarkness. Suddenly, in a huggermugger of stumbling hurry and shouted directions, a family spills out of a stairwell, dropping luggage and household possessions all over the room, and collapsing in relief. Obviously a close thing, whatever it was. The lights come up as they freeze - father, mother, daughter and Negro maid-while into the tawdry room and out through the theater comes a dreadful ululation of voices...