Word: weightlessness
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...astronauts recorded the occurrence of lightning for weather analysts, instruments checked the amount of carbon monoxide at different levels of the atmosphere and monitored the rate of growth of sunflower seedlings in the weightless environment...
...they are even better here. So are the special-effects people, whose work is far more polished technically than it was before. Taken together, all these people have contributed to the creation of something that is increasingly hard to find these days-an entertainment that actually achieves a near weightless state. It is unfair to burden such a work with excesses of praise. Suffice it to say that Superman II is a movie no kid need be ashamed to take his parents...
...Adam and Eve to go to work. Work has never recovered from that humiliation. From the beginning, the Lord's word said that work was something bad: a punishment, the great stone of mortality and toil laid upon a human spirit that might otherwise soar in the infinite, weightless playfulness of grace...
Morse admits, however, that the shuttle comes close to helping him realize one of his dreams. "The shuttle may make it possible for me to photograph in space--weightless," he said, smiling and hefting his gut with both hands...
...filled with the soothing recorded sounds of wind chimes and bird chirps. He steps into a flotation tank and lies down in 8 in. of water laced with 800 Ibs. of dissolved Epsom salts and heated to 93°F. He glides back and forth once or twice, feeling weightless because of the high buoyancy, then settles back, secure in the knowledge that he is one of the earliest consumers of a modish new psychic treatment: tank therapy...