Word: viscous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Black Magic (Edward Small; United Artists) is a viscous, heady brew concocted by a Russian-born Hollywood moviemaker (Gregory Ratoff) out of a turbulent French romance (Alexandre Dumas pere's Memoirs of a Physician) about a swaggering 18th Century charlatan (the so-called Count Cagliostro). The film was made entirely in Italy at a cost of $2,000,000 (more than a billion lire). Hollywood...
...solar system, says ter Haar, must once have consisted of the sun, surrounded by a vast atmosphere of gas. The system's revolution shaped this atmosphere into a flattish disc. Near the center the gas was dense enough to be somewhat viscous. Its drag gradually slowed the rotation of the sun while the outer parts of the disc revolved faster. This slowing effect, thinks ter Haar, points toward an explanation of the uneven distribution of the solar system's angular momentum...
...speedup process takes all the steps at the same time. An ordinary commercial film with an opaque back is exposed in the usual way. The photographer pulls it out of the camera along with a sheet of special paper. Attached to the paper is a "pod" (containing a viscous chemical mixture) which is broken when it passes two small rollers. The chemicals are spread evenly between film and paper, sticking them closely together (see diagram...
Sink or Swim. In the viscous gumbo, fighting was reduced to patrol actions. Off Leyte's western shore, Japanese reinforcement convoys appeared and were attacked by fighter bombers from Sverdrup's new strips. Some were burned and some were sunk. Thousands of Japanese troops on their way to reinforce the stubborn, holdout garrison at Ormoc died. How many thousands, no man knew, although the communiqués offered guesstimates in bold round numbers...
...fled from Jap troops in the interior. The trails, sometimes less than a foot wide, trickled through the matted jungles and crossed ledges which dropped hundreds of feet into gorges. Dynamiting crews went first to blast away the heaviest barriers. Behind them bulldozers slashed into the undergrowth, rocky banks, viscous...