Word: thunderous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Computerized Flames. The scientists are also learning more about the habits of nature's arsonist, the lightning stroke. Their research tools include sensors for detecting electric-field charges, photoelectric devices for measuring luminosity, photographs and recordings of thunder. From studies of some 3,000 cloud-to-ground lightning flashes, two apparent patterns emerged: the number of lightning discharges from storm clouds seeded with silver iodide was from 32% to 38% less than from unseeded storms. One type of discharge, which lingers on the ground for a relatively long period of time (about one-fifth of a second)-appeared...
...Rolling Thunder. One logical decision, long urged by his military advisers, would be a determined thrust by land and sea in and above the so-called Demilitarized Zone that separates the two Viet Nams. The "Inchon Thing," as Pentagon planners call it-referring to Douglas MacArthur's end run into enemy territory during the Korean War -would carry the ground war to North Vietnamese soil for the first time. The purpose would be to seal off the DMZ as an operational base for North Vietnamese regular forces above the 17th Parallel and to crimp the southward flow of Communist...
Since Tennyson first immortalized their suicidal attack, The Charge of the Light Brigade has been the inspiration for four blood-and-thunder films. Now Director Tony Richardson is trotting out a fifth version. Unable to shoot at Balaclava, actual site of the 1854 battle in the Crimea (it is now a Russian missile base), he set up his cameras in a suitably barren valley in Turkey, 30 miles from Ankara. There, for the past two months, he has led his all-star cast -David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Trevor Howard, Lawrence Harvey and John Gielgud-through mishap and mayhem. With...
...Rumbling Thunder. Conductor Robert Craft and Director Bodo Igesz made the most of the fact that Cardillac is swifter and more dramatic than Hin demith's later operas. The elements cooperated too: distant thunder rumbled over the Rio Grande Valley as a vengeful Paris mob killed Cardillac, and through the wide opening at the rear of the stage, the near-capacity audience of 1,100 could see lightning flickering above the blue Jemez Mountains. Hin demith's complex melodies were traced with clarity and polish by a well-schooled, predominantly American cast, notably Baritone John Reardon, whose demented...
...action throughout was punctuated with flashes of eerie light and sound effects of thunder, lightning, sirens, whistles and whooshing jets. Exclaimed Big Foot at the close: "We sprinkle the rice powder of angels on the soiled bed sheets and turn the mattresses through blackberry bushes! And with all power the pigeon flocks dash into the rifle bullets! And in all bombed houses, the keys turn twice around in the locks...