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...early morning sunlight from the desolate, rock-strewn surface. The black-and-white monotony is broken only by the color brought to the moon by man-the golden insulating foil on Intrepid, (continued on page 41) the red and blue of the American flag, the golden reflection from the umbrella antenna-and the blues of the earth in the sky above...
Bean will emerge about 35 minutes later to join his skipper in preliminary chores. Together they will set up a large, umbrella-shaped S-band antenna (for better TV transmissions), place the TV camera on a tripod about 20 ft. from the LM, unfurl a solar wind experiment to trap high-speed particles from the sun on aluminum foil, and -in the only ceremony planned for the mission-plant a U.S. flag...
Almost by definition, the several segments of an "anthology" film are forced to huddle under a thematic umbrella. Most often, the umbrella is a single author, as in O. Henry's Full House, or Somerset Maugham's Quartet, Trio and Encore. Or Truman Capote's Trilogy. In Capote's case, the effect is magnified by Director Frank Perry (Last Summer), working from scenarios by his wife Eleanor in collaboration with the author...
...story of Piazza's semi-demise began at the starting line, where the runners were forced to stand for an unusually long time before the gun was fired. Pottetti, freezing in the pouring rain, looked around him and saw Penn coach Jim Tupenny holding an umbrella over Piazza. "When I saw that I said to myself that there was no way I wasn't going to beat that boy," Pottetti said after the race...
...seems to me that the great tragedy of the Viet Nam Moratorium is that people do not realize that peace is too precious to be bought. A gentleman with a silk hat and umbrella learned this 31 years...