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...told the rest of the people--that stayed at home and couldn't watch--how they did it. At that period of time and still on a subconscious level, all things were endowed with spirit, with a mystical essence. They'll never explain everything there'll always be a fring of human thought wavering in a breeze of unsurity. And that's where we are. It's imagination we're trying to entice people like pied pipers to the edge of their souls...

Author: By D. RICHARD De silva, | Title: 15 MINUTES with the Spin Doctors | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

...thin, elegant discs than scientists spotted two new moons no more than 600 km (370 miles) across at the edge of the ring system. They were designated 513 and S-14, because they are the 13th and 14th to be discovered. 513 circles Saturn just outside the so-called Fring, which is about 80,000 km (50,000 miles) from the planet's cloud tops -the gaseous sphere has no real surface. 514 revolves just inside that ring. Like dogs herding sheep along a narrow road, the outer moon seems to be keeping ring particles from flying off into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visit to a Large Planet | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...runs a Nipper Independent Oil Co. Servicenter, gets sick and tired of living with his sister Vernell and her husband Bill, a disabled veteran who refuses to go halvers on the weekly food bill and leaves "hairs stuck around on the soap." Norwood makes a deal with Grady Fring the Kredit King to drive an Olds 98 to New York, expenses paid and $50 clear. Fortified by a bottle of NuGrape and a nickel pack of Nabs, he sets out on a jocular junket that confronts him with the second shortest midget in show business, a hypnotized chicken, his future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The First Novelists: Skilled, Satirical, Searching | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

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