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...book was. Sagan's sensuous sentences suggested the presence of horror by wreathing softly about it; the camera pries into its morbid subject like a coroner. And the meanings that the novelist saw through her looking glass, darkly, Director Otto Preminger sees face to face in staring Mediterranean sunlight. He loses the French style but gains some common substance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 20, 1958 | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...little flexibility when inflated. Since it is meant to be worn for short periods only, there are no provisions for taking food, and no latrine facilities. Little attempt has been made to protect the wearer against the fierce temperature effects of empty space. If he were exposed to full sunlight in a vacuum, he would probably fry on one side and freeze solid on the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Semi-Space Suit | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

...long spaceship that will stop, start or change direction at the command of a whistle; so intricate is its mechanism, which is activated by a sound-sensitive diaphragm, that it comes with eight pages of instructions. Fairchild's transistor radio kit ($8.95), which operates on power drawn from sunlight or artificial light, supposedly can be assembled by a nine-year-old, but it includes a booklet of diagramed directions that many a parent will be hard-pressed to decipher. Other toyland marvels include an electronic robot ($8.95) that picks up pieces of metal by remote control and drops them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Challenge for Parents | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...broad daylight or at night. In daytime the 23-in. sphere, more than 500 miles away, is invisible against the glare of the sun. At night it is invisible because it is in the shadow of the earth. Only at dawn or dusk, when the satellite is in sunlight against a background of fairly dark sky, can it be seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Sputnik | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...avoid "the invasions of the birds," Nivola keeps his bas-reliefs fairly flat, but the play of sunlight and shadow over their pocked, planed, humped and dovetailed surfaces gives an illusion of depth, elaborate richness and almost of motion. Their apparent coolness is partly compensated by an underlying Sardinian warmth. Sculptor Nivola's most abstract conceptions are based on careful sketches of his wife, his children and their dog; they hint, vaguely but happily, at life in the flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Out of His Own Pocket | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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