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Surplus Commodities is a simple program based on a simple concept. The Department of Agriculture, realizing that the problems of farm surplus and rural hunger can theoretically be solved in one great swoop, gives out its extra food to families who don't have enough...
...style is the choreography of its Dutch cofounder, Hans van Manen, whose Essay in Silence shows the theater's corps at its reserved but authoritative best. The theme of the dance is man's lack of communication with man. Without a note from the orchestra, the dancers swoop, leap, writhe and double up in inarticulate agony. But the dance is full of sound-the staccato rhythms of the dancers' feet, their sudden grunts and cries of desperation and, as the pace increases, the amplified lub-dub of a beating heart. A blood-red column rises like...
...consume large additional amounts of the craft's precious fuel. Once a launch time has been set, scientists will pick a site where the sun will be at least 7° and no more than 20° above the horizon in back of the LM crew when they swoop down. From this position, the sun will illuminate the surface in a way that will bring out the most contrast, making it easier for the crew to land safely...
...track incoming bombers and has enabled its pilots to exploit an American blind spot. Knowing that U.S. pilots have to locate their targets-and must take pains to avoid restricted areas-the MIGs have been climbing above the clouds and out of sight to await the attackers. Then they swoop down like hawks, rip through a U.S. squadron with guns ablaze and vanish into the blue. With such tactics, the MIGs have lately shot down almost as many planes as they have lost-though the U.S. still is way ahead in overall dogfight kills...
...rays of the sun. Thousands of rare giant land tortoises, some 4-ft. across and weighing as much as 600 Ibs., creep across the pitted coral and ridged limestone surface of the island. Tiny flightless rails nestle amidst Aldabra's bushy scrub and mangrove forests, while above them swoop red-footed boobies, sacred ibises and fruit-eating bats. Twenty of the island's plant species are nonexistent elsewhere in the world; so are a host of its insect inhabitants...