Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Sun Oil Co. St. Davids...
...three astronauts was delayed. First priority was given to finding a way to cool off the Orbital Workshop (other sections of the spacecraft remained at a normal 65° or 70°). Maneuvering the spacecraft with its thrusters, flight controllers in Houston turned the exposed area away from the sun. But by doing that they also changed the angle of the four working solar wings, which reduced their exposure to sunlight and dangerously lowered the production of electrical power...
ROTH, OF COURSE, works in everything else under the sun -- transvestites, midgets and an incredible panoply of solidly imaginative caricatures. All of this, as well as the moral aura surrounding a proud and gentlemanly game debased, is milked for all the socio-cultural comment it's worth. There is a Moby Dick thoroughness about the subject: Roth did a lot of homework in Cooperstown, and there is an ambling love of detail for its own sake that recalls Melville's novel (which, by the way, Roth calls "five hundred pages of blubber"). The innuendoes of the game itself...
LOEB DRAMA CENTER. New music for the theater by Harvard composers Earl Kim and Fred Lerdahl. Free. Sat. and Sun...
...Knew Too Much. Because Hitchcock also directed a Technicolor remake of this classic (in Hollywood in 1955), the original is too seldom shown. This marvelous suspense tale, starring Peter Lorre, will be shown at the Welles, Sat. and Sun. at 2:00 only...