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...lends sudden lights and shadows to the barest melody. Musically, Taylor is a fusion of the three black and white mainstreams of pop: the lonely twang of country, the pithy narrative of folk and the rhythmic melancholy of blues. Beyond that, Taylor's use of elemental imagery?darkness and sunlight, references to roads traveled and untraveled. to fears spoken and left unsaid?reaches a level both of intimacy and controlled emotion rarely achieved in purely pop music. He can, says one of his campus admirers, "turn an arena into a living room...
...their own devices, he has a fine camera eye. The novel suggests a suite of woodcuts; the earlier film was, appropriately, black-and-white gothic. Though this Wuthering Heights is in color, it is suggestive of death and transfiguration. The Yorkshire landscape has never seemed so malignant; filters block sunlight so that skies gleam while grounds are plunged in darkness, recalling the paintings of Magritte...
SLOWLY, deliberately, the white-clad figure emerged from the spindly spacecraft and stepped into the glaring sunlight. In every direction stretched the barren hills and" ridges of a forbidding landscape that has remained virtually unchanged since the moon was created. Alan Shepard could hardly describe what he saw. "It certainly is a stark place here at Fra Mauro," he said. Then, as his image flickered onto millions of TV screens back on earth, the 47-year-old Navy captain took the last two steps down the ladder of Antares, the lunar lander. Finally his heavy boots scuffed the soft, grayish...
...backers. Their message: the SST was patently a luxury for the jet set, saving inconsequential hours at huge cost, and potentially a lethal one for everyone. It might pollute the upper air, even cause skin cancer by hampering the formation of the ozone layer that filters out ultraviolet sunlight, create intolerable noise at airports and monstrous, destructive sonic booms while it was airborne. Finally, they argued, it would take millions of dollars that could be better spent. The day before the vote last Thursday, the lobbyists were still at work, pressing their case in the offices of several Senators...
Lunokhod is powered by solar cells that are apparently charged when it opens its clamlike lid to sunlight. One or more electric motors drive each of the eight spoked wheels independently. Like a remote-controlled toy car, it is steered by radio signals from earth, where monitors are able to see the terrain in front, behind and to the side of the rover in pictures transmitted from onboard TV cameras. To avert disabling accidents, Lunokhod has a number of safety features. It can, for instance, shut itself off if it begins to list dangerously, or if one of its wheels...