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Steele, skiing on a packed powder but windblown course, ended the two-run competition a half second behind the University of Vermont's Dave Dodge...
Exobiologists do not insist that life exists on Mars; they argue only that the harsh conditions on the planet do not necessarily preclude life. On earth, they point out, organisms have managed to thrive in environments ranging from the icy wastes of Antarctica to the windblown summits of high mountains to the enormous pressures of deep-sea trenches. Adds University of Maryland Exobiologist Cyril Ponnamperuma: "We have even found life in boiling hot springs and strong acids...
Lean supports his matchstick characters with the crudest possible symbolism. Rosy breathes and heaves beside a patch of openmouthed lilies as Doryan appears on the hill. Their couplings-and every potentially significant moment in the film -are drowned by the roar of the surf, the creak of windblown trees, the ta-pocketa-pocketa of a British power generator, and an overpowering score. Perhaps the rudest device of all is the misuse of John Mills as the village idiot who sees all and knows all, but can tell nothing. Like the film itself, it is scarcely worthy of Lean...
Vatican officials were taken with an anonymously donated portrait of a handsome young man in a windblown, cassocklike robe. In their eyes, it symbolized a devoted missionary priest, and they hung the painting near Pope Paul's own likeness in the press room of the Holy See. It had been in place more than a month when someone noted that the young priest bore a suspicious resemblance to the figure in a Red Chinese propaganda poster. The artist, a little investigation revealed, had copied a portrait of Chairman Mao as a youth of 27, striding through Kiangsi province...
...Atop windblown Mount Herzl, a dozen beacons-one for each of the original tribes of Israel-illuminated the night sky over Jerusalem. At the floodlit Wailing Wall, Orthodox Jews, with their black hats and beards, linked arms, danced and sang with rugged paratroopers wearing red berets and toting Uzi submachine guns. In the streets of Jerusalem, thousands of young sabras frolicked away the day and night to the hypnotic strains of the hora, then tumbled exhausted onto sidewalks and park grass to sleep. As the highlight of the biggest military parade in Israel's history, marking its 20th year...