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When the "strange loneliness" of his sudden success begins to bug him, he takes his wife Beverly to a spa and "meditation center" in the Big Sur. "You sit in those baths," he says, "steaming and watching the stars fall and relating to yourself and to other people. Or you stand next to a tree that you know has been there for 3,000 years. Its age puts you in perspective, tells you where...
...raise my barbaric yawp sur les toits de Paris...
...discovered the first time around in the Mesopotamian city of Ga-Sur, about 200 miles north of Babylon...
Launched on a near-perfect trajec tory toward the moon, Orbiter 2 briefly lost and then regained its navigational lock on its guiding star Canopus; other wise it was not bothered by glitches. As it sped toward the moon 93 hours later, some 2,770 miles above the lunar sur face, Orbiter's retrorocket fired, slowing the craft enough for lunar gravity to draw it into an elliptical orbit...
...combined Giorgione's Arcadian pastoral with postures from a corner of Raphael's Judgment of Paris, and then transformed them into all-too-contemporary figures, one of them in the buff, picnicking on the banks of the Seine, Napoleon III considered the painting, Le Déjeuner sur I'herbe, a threat to public morals. Both it and Olympia today hang in the Louvre...