Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Polanski's overrated Knife in the Water was at least well-paced and slick, exuding an unpretentious formalism we happily like to associate with good committed art. Since then, the money increased, Hollywood beckoned, Polanski learned English, and his films have apparently fallen into every cinematic pitfall readily available. Repulsion revelled in cheap lens distortion and sound effects, and The Fearless Vampire Killers was lousy with back-drops painted in poorly processed Metrocolor...
...Casablanca last March 29, Delta Airlines Pilot Hugo Vihlen, 36, confidently squared away his six-foot sailboat, April Fool, and shaped a course for Miami Beach, 4,100 sea miles distant. For 84 days, Vihlen bobbed and tossed in the prevailing easterlies, subsisted on little else but bread and water, yet kept his sea legs and once happily waved greetings to a curious U.S. submarine. All he asked of the sub skipper was a slice of roast beef, but the galley was closed. For all his bold self-sufficiency, Vihlen's long journey came to a saddening landfall: though...
...merely staying afloat. A draining, plug had popped out of Mona Lou's hull; when Lewis pulled into Nassau to refuel, he had to leap overboard and plug the hole with rags to keep the boat from sinking. Finally, after 10 hr. 54 min. of whomping on the water, during which he averaged 54 m.p.h., Lewis crossed the finish line to win the $10,000 first prize by a margin of only four seconds over Runner-Up Bill Sirois' 31-ft. Bertram. "You have to be on your toes all the time," Lewis allowed. Indeed he had been...
...molecule delivers its oxygen to the body's tissues, it reverts to its original shape and attracts charged hydrogen atoms. The blood thus becomes alkaline, forms a temporary chemical bond with carbon dioxide and water from the tissues in the form of bicarbonate and carries it to the lungs, where it changes back into water and carbon dioxide before being exhaled. The change of molecular shape is important, says Perutz, "because it is the most elementary manifestation of the property of a living system that can turn chemical energy into movement...
...Baby, Ira Levin's best-selling chiller about the powers of darkness at work in a Manhattan apartment building. Now Old Nick, along with a covey of attendant diabolists, is making Rosemary's life miserable in a film version by Polish Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water, Repulsion). Even readers of the book (2,300,000 copies) who know how Baby comes out are in for a pleasant surprise: the very real acting ability of Mia Farrow...