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Word: superbeings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...words are the President's own, but to parody Nixon's prose is to try to beat a master at his own trade. George S. Irving does a superb imitation in the role. Vidal vows that he will now abandon playwrighting. Thanks for small favors. ·T.E. Kalem

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Small Favor | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

...across the rock-littered surface. Others show the Rover bouncing off rocks as Astronaut John Young hot-rods along the Cayley Plains or throwing up rooster tails of moon dust as he puts it through a series of skidding, Le Mans-type racing turns. "It's simply a superb vehicle," said the high-spirited Duke after his return to Houston. The vehicle's designers could only agree. NASA engineers announced that they were delighted with the moon buggy and said that they planned no changes in it for December's Apollo 17 mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mysteries from the Moon | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

GROUP SEQUENCES excelled above individual performances or movements. In one superb silouhette the dancers become a bouquet of budded plants slowly nodding in the wind as they grow. The curved bodies curl around each other and amalgamate in a group on the floor. The dance embodies the fury of the Orestian trilogy as two males slither from the group back into the wings...

Author: By Meredith A. Palmer, | Title: Dance--child | 5/11/1972 | See Source »

...their words add up to something extraordinary. Stark figures on an uncertain terrain, they are voices amid thunder, and the voices stick in the mind. Wiesel, who calls himself a Hasid, has done honor to his past with a superb piece of narrative artistry and -more important-with a stunning affirmation of life. Mayo Mohs

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Voices Amid Thunder | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

Joseph's troupe is also superb, always mirroring the unreality with which Rosencrantz and Guildenstern view the "real" world. Lauren Sunstein, as the sniffling and oft-abused Alfred, plays her small part exceptionally well, as do the other Players, whose near-wordless roles require remarkable agility and continually forceful expression...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | 5/5/1972 | See Source »

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