Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. Director Richard Lester's screen version of the Broadway hit is fussy and frenetic, but Comedian Zero Mostel saves the play as Pseudolus, a conniving, overstuffed Roman slave who would sell his own soul to buy his freedom...
...FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. Director Richard Lester's screen version of the Broadway hit is fussy and frenetic, but Comedian Zero Mostel saves the play as Pseudolus, a conniving, overstuffed Roman slave who would sell his own soul to buy his freedom...
...simulate fires in orbit, the scientists loaded test chambers containing high concentrations of oxygen into KC-135 jet transports and flew them through parabolic arcs, creating 30 seconds of zero gravity during each maneuver. In the brief period of weightlessness, they ignited a variety of materials within the test chambers and took color movies of the results. Though the fires lit up promptly, the flames began to die down within 1½ seconds; they simply smoldered or went out completely during the remaining period of weightlessness. Scientists estimated that the burning rates of test materials were reduced by as much...
...FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. Director Richard Lester's screen version of the Broadway hit musical has a grossly libidinous libretto, some charmingly scummy sets, and a quartet of top comedians (Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, Buster Keaton, Phil Silvers) who dance and doubletalk their way through the back alleys of Nero's Rome...
...amount of real power wielded by modern monarchs ranges from zero in Europe to the Old Testament authority which Emperor Haile Selassie, the seemingly indestructible Lion of Judah, still exercises in Ethiopia. Royal trappings run the same range-from the furled umbrella that Denmark's King Frederik carries to go shopping, to the nine-tiered umbrella throne of King Bhumibol of Thailand. The champagne-and-chorus-girl monarch is gone or going; uncrowned dictators or oil millionaires are much freer to be glamorous wastrels these days than are kings...