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...today the concrete cooling towers standing in open fields or alongside rivers appear to many as monuments to a god that failed. Much of the public fears that nuclear plants are sending out mysterious and unseen radiation that will maim generations to come, or may somehow explode...
...case, Carilli said, workers were spray-painting a wall and "somehow the paint seeped through an unseen crack and got into a professor's storage room--which is something she couldn't tolerate...
...Bluebird Stadium, the scoreboard does not zap, crackle and pop; an unseen hand changes the goose eggs each inning. No Astro-Turf here; cows graze on the infield in anticipation of Farm Night, when the ballplayers have a hand at milking them. The team is a collection of youths on the way up and burned-out cases on the way down. There is the hot prospect (Patrick Cassidy) who is a terror in the outfield and a bed wetter at home. And the hick pitcher (Barry Tubbs) who appears to get height sickness when he climbs the pitcher...
...around to the crowd before him, launched vigorously into his inaugural address. His easy smile was gone. His large chin was thrust out defiantly as if at some invisible, insidious foe. A challenge rang in his clear strong voice. For 20 vibrant minutes he held his audience, seen and unseen, under a strong spell...
Beyond that, The Right Stuff, even before its official premiere on Oct. 21, is surrounded by a great, speculative buzzing. This is caused by the fact that one of its principal figures, onetime Astronaut Glenn, is currently running for the Democratic presidential nomination. Sight unseen, Washington politicians, pundits and gossipists are wondering what effect a potentially popular movie may have on his candidacy (see following story). But politics aside, the movie's portrayal of Glenn aptly illustrates Kaufman's strategy in adapting Wolfe's book. In one of the author's best sentences, Glenn is described...