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Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California last January, the $250 million observatory, which was built jointly by the U.S. and The Netherlands, has completed four separate surveys of virtually the entire sky. During these sweeps, IRAS'S 22.4-in. mirror and electronic sensors, which are chilled by liquid helium to nearly 4° above absolute zero (-459.7° F) so that their own heat will not impede observations, picked up infrared emissions from more than 200,000 sources. Most of these celestial pinpoints are much too cool to have been recorded by conventional telescopes. Many are extremely...
Though Snider is a whining specimen of failed machismo, Fosse makes sure you realize that Snider is oblivious to his own absurdity. Snider sees only his reflected image: he exercises, grooms himself obsessively, and even says "Hello" to himself in different ways, all in front of the mirror. Later in the film, as his narcissism begins to crumble into self-loathing, he even watches himself throw up in the mirror, sneering at his reflection over a predatory mustache. Dorothy might have been able to save some men like this: behind the counter of the Dairy Queen she was just chunky...
...Times-Mirror Company, the official sponsor of the festival, will pay the ART for its services. Income from ticket sales will go to the Olympic Organizing Committee, according to Jedediah Wheeler, booking agent for the ART's tours...
...with Matissean color. There are direct homages to Matisse in the show, like the lacy cut-paper silhouettes of Blue and Black, 1951-53; and the Picassoan body surfaces too, a fleshy phantom, as in Visitation, 1957-73, an allusion, it seems, to Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror...
Snider is a man in thrall to the power of the first impression. He is quick with flattery and small gifts. He studies himself in the mirror, practicing smooth self-introductions to strangers. He advises Dorothy to remember the name of everyone she meets for future flattering reference. With his absurd faith in such niceties, Snider puts one in mind of Willy Loman and his need to be well liked, particularly since that modern archetype also practiced his wiles in similarly unpromising venues. Snider's equivalent of the New England territory is the wet-T-shirt contest, the dream...