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Used as a radar, it has 40,000 times the power of the Air Force radar at Millstone Hill, Mass., which bounced electronic pulses off Venus. The mighty pulses from Arecibo will study Venus and the other planets more intimately. Turned on the moon, they will penetrate many feet below the surface. Their reflections received on earth will help predict what sort of rock or dust the first human explorers will find...
...what playgoers remember and rue about their own first stumbling, infatuated steps toward love. "Tchaik" (Brian Bedford), a whimsically imaginative boy nicknamed for Tchaikovsky, is pathetically in earnest about classical music and a quality called "inner beauty" that is symbolized for him in a reproduction of Botticelli's Venus over his bed. With fear and trembling, plus a savvy pal's coaching, he has invited to his scrubby flat what he thinks is a feminine moonlight sonata. Enter the girl (Geraldine McEwan), a sniffly, scratchy, giggly chick with the inner beauty of a beer...
Tertullian condemned the theater as the "shrine of Venus," and it took the church a millennium to change its judgment . . . There have been those whose socks and buskins were as happily quiet under pews as active on the boards. You, sir, are such...
...insists that subjects stretch out and relax for 15 minutes before the first picture is snapped. But Dr. Gershon-Cohen, a radiologist at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, is the extremely careful scientist, not the temperamental artist. Borrowing a technique space researchers use to take temperature readings of Venus, he photographs the human body's surface heat with a novel infra-red camera...
...Venus Imperiale is the title of her newest film, and coroneted Gina Lollobrigida, 33, looked type-cast for the part...