Word: unreels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some time this week, the newest NASA satellite is scheduled to perform a complex series of operations in orbit. If all goes well, Radio Astronomy Explorer-A will unreel a collection of booms and antenna until it turns into a veritable space spider, with two pairs of appendages reaching 1,500 ft. from tip to tip-a distance greater than the height of the Empire State Building (which is 1,472 ft.). With those great legs foraging for information, RAE-A will act as a flying radio telescope capable of monitoring signals that even the largest earth-bound installations cannot...
Cinematic disappointments have not seemed to impede Truffaut's aplomb. If anything, he has grown more secure and relaxed. Though he is still a chain-smoker, he abandoned nail biting when one of his daughters took it up. In a field where jealousies unreel at every screening, he remains genial. His praise extends to every film maker but one-Italy's Michelangelo Antonioni. "That is the one director whose sensibilities I cannot get inside," he says, possibly because the aridity of Antonioni's films is diametrically opposite to Truffaut's abiding humanism. Perhaps his favorite cinematic...
Such quaint language endures in the movies from the '30s and '40s that unreel on television with the steady persistence of an arterial throb. Ranging back to the baby talkies, late-show films represent what Jean Cocteau called the "petrified fountain of thought." Ghosts of America's past, they evoke the naivete, exuberance-and problems of a simpler society. To middle-aged Americans, they can also be embarrassments with commercials. Did the public truly love those painful Blondie pictures so much that Hollywood made 28 of them? How did Turhan Bey ever become a star? Did anyone...
...strumpet is written and played in a manner guaranteed to subdue passion in any red-blooded youth. Most of the time, however, the characters in Leather Boys seem stronger than the pat fiction imposed upon them. In the hands of Director Furie and his exuberantly wayward cast, their lives unreel with a moment-to-moment immediacy that is funny, fascinating and human...
...government, and brought grievous moments to scrumptious Gina Lollobrigida, who told a Roman judge that during her celebrated "nude" scene she was wearing a flesh-colored coverall. Pending the outcome of charges that Lollo and her codefendants may have perpetrated an immoral exhibition, movie exhibitors everywhere are itching to unreel the evidence. It consists of a four-part comedy, vaguely inspired by The Decameron, in which a quartet of beauties with little on their minds and less on their bodies wriggle through a keyhole-art film of widely varied quality...