Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what he's going through. It's just impossible to get it out of your mind. I've been married 14 years . . ." She cannot blend into the social mix of other couples easily, and she hates to rely on others to entertain her?"You feel like a fifth wheel." The infrequent parties must inevitably end badly. "I come home, and that's when I feel worst...
Lunokhod is powered by solar cells that are apparently charged when it opens its clamlike lid to sunlight. One or more electric motors drive each of the eight spoked wheels independently. Like a remote-controlled toy car, it is steered by radio signals from earth, where monitors are able to see the terrain in front, behind and to the side of the rover in pictures transmitted from onboard TV cameras. To avert disabling accidents, Lunokhod has a number of safety features. It can, for instance, shut itself off if it begins to list dangerously, or if one of its wheels...
...sinks slowly over the rim of the steering wheel, where is a vacationing family likely to put in for the night...
Accident number three occurred on the Kansas Turnpike with Royce Shaw at the wheel. He and Colburn had decided to see who could drive the Hertz car farther in an hour, and Shaw looked like a sure winner until he couldn't handle a bend in the road and began to swerve back and forth. "That one seared me,'" Spengler recalls...
...statement: it has been designed and it signifies. Vanessa Redgrave, not quite fresh from her role as one of the objects in Blow-Up, enters this perfectly bourgeois room and crosses to her trussed-up lover, Franco Nero, here a non-figurative painter. She turns on a burnishing wheel that begins to polish Nero's foot and Petri cuts to another action expressing a corollary anguish, a shot of her pulling his hair. It's only Nero's dream, though...