Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series of late titles express the process near its conclusion: Imagination Dead Imagine, From An Abandoned Work, Lessness. Beckett tries to present the shape of absent qualities--for they do have shape, as clearly as does the character for zero. The only specifics he allows into his works are those of negation: the grey landscape, bare horizon, the tone of a silence between phrases, the quality of an incompleteness. Imagination is dead--except for the imagination of how it would be without imagination. The late Beckett works grow more and more indeterminate, and the masks of the characters more featureless...
...approximate the effects of weightlessness (the other four nurses served as an ambulatory control). After a second test on the centrifuges in the last week of the experiment, the twelve women will be examined by doctors. Among other things, they want to know how the women responded to zero-G, whether there was excessive pooling of blood in the legs during weightlessness, and if there was any significant metabolic, cardiovascular or glandular changes...
...income of more than $200,000 a year, reportedly paid $792.81 in federal income taxes; in 1971 they paid $878.03. Their taxes were the equivalent of those paid by a family of three that earns between $7,500 and $8,500 annually. While the Nixons escaped the category of zero taxpayers, it was only by a pittance...
...contrast to the astronauts, other passengers aboard Skylab did not do so well on their return to earth. The tiny minnows that were born aboard the space station died after their arrival in Houston; Arabella, the surviving spider who had quickly mastered the art of weaving her web in zero-G, was found dead in her vial by NASA doctors...
Still, the readjustment to gravity was not always easy. Lousma, for example, accidentally let a bottle of aftershave lotion smash on the bathroom floor when he momentarily forgot that he could no longer let the bottle hang in midair, as he could in the zero gravity aboard Skylab. Garriott had an even more unusual experience; he lost his balance on his first evening back home when his wife turned off the lights as they were going upstairs to bed. "I can't stand up unless I have a visual reference," he complained. Helen Garriott flicked the lights back...