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...Winston Grill served cocktails from a bar hardly bigger than its baby-grand piano. The renovated Club Norman (once a servicemen's hangout and now Toronto's only real nightclub) had two bars: a Circus Room (striped awnings, murals that featured animals and weightlifters) and a Starlight Room (a synthetically starlit ceiling, oval bar, an imported floor show). Some 2,300 shoved into the club on opening night...
...that President Truman's directive of last December, under which General George C. Marshall sought a compromise conclusion to China's civil war, had been outdated by events. Chiang's successes in the field had invalidated it. The Assembly meeting made hope for mediation dim as starlight...
...with their slowed-down clocks and their shrunken yardsticks, they would measure the arriving starlight in such a way that its speed would come out 186,000 m. p s. Under Relativity, the "absurd" equations above are not absurd...
Gravitation and Starlight. "Special Relativity," though it stood many rigorous tests, was not accepted at once. For ten years Einstein worked, extending his theory to cover more varied "frames of reference." In 1915, he published his "General Relativity." It explained the force of gravitation itself, which Newton had merely pointed...
...screen sustains this mood with a generalized shot of the opposed camps, their fires like humiliated starlight. There are no creeping murmurs, neighing steeds, crowing cocks, clanking armorers. Instead, William Walton's score, one of the few outstanding scores in movie history, furnishes subdued, musical metaphors. Midway through the Chorus, the film boldly breaks off to interpolate, to better effect, a scene in the French camp which in Shakespeare's version precedes...