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...pictures were somewhat fuzzy and the hues none too bright. But no one was complaining. The images presented remarkable, virtually unprecedented views of the nearest thing to an extraterrestrial hothouse: the scorching surface of Venus, where temperatures hover around 900° F, and atmospheric pressures are 90 times as heavy as those on earth...
...lapses of memory and bouts of paranoia. His second in command, Gibbs (Richard Kavanaugh), lusts for Roote's post, is as obsequiously duplicitous as lago and possesses the mental cast of a Nazi stormtrooper. Miss Cutts (Amy Van Nostrand), the head nurse, is one of Pinter's Venus's-flytraps. She is Roote's mistress, sleeps with Gibbs and toyingly teases Lamb (Dan Butler), a naive underling whom Gibbs brings to slaughter in the cruel finale...
...world survived the alignment of the earth, moon, sun, Jupiter and Venus this week although some people had speculated that the alignment would cause major disasters. Scientists at Harvard refuted a 1974 book called "The Jupiter Effect," which predicted that high winds and earthquakes would follow the rare grouping of the planets, but the masses were still alarmed. The Harvard observatory received 150 to 200 calls from people anxious to know whether the world would end. It didn...
Huchra explained that the event itself is not unprecedented: Every 13 years, the earth, moon, sun, Jupiter and Venus align similarly without significant effect on the earth...
...Kansas ordered Joseph Wambaugh's The Choirboys, thinking it must be about a church picnic. She soon let us know what she thought about the language and sex." B.O.T.'s catalogue now gives an XX rating for tapes of Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus and The Hite Report. But even the lustiest prose is underplayed. Actor Dan Lazar reads My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Errol Flynn's spicy autobiography, in the vocal equivalent of Muzak. Says Hecht: "We don't mind a slight inflection at tense or emotional moments, but the listener will...