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...stories and the images flash by in tantalizing bits: a forest of radio telescopes in New Mexico that look like giant desert toadstools; shrimplike creatures that are found under the ice of Antarctica; a microscopic closeup of a sugar cube dissolving, creating a miniature tidal wave in a glass of water. The cameras record the compelling beauty of the scientist's search, as well as its frequent frustration and occasional loneliness...
...Mount Tambora on Indonesia's Sumbawa Island exploded, ejecting 25 cu. mi. of volcanic material, the greatest amount since ancient times. Whirlwinds and tidal waves killed 12,000, while dust and ash plunged the island into darkness for three days...
...bang could be heard 3,000 miles away. The eruption left a hole in the ocean floor more than 1,100 ft. deep and 6½ miles wide; islands 50 miles away were showered with fiery boulders weighing as much as 70 Ibs. The explosion caused 130-ft. tidal waves that swept over hundreds of villages on nearby islands, including Java and Sumatra, and drowned...
...buffs and the creator of the film in question, George Lucas. Clarke emerged from the theater to urge that TIME'S editors schedule a major story about "a movie you have to love." Clarke's article appeared soon after, previewing a film that was to receive a tidal wave of national attention: Star Wars, the fun-and-fantasy space opera that became the most financially successful motion picture ever made...
...very, very easy way out. It doesn't try to find a response to redneck machismo; nor does it try to find one to intellectual machismo. It doesn't acknowledge the real and pressing question of how intellectuals are supposed to stem the tidal wave of jingoism Carter is engulfing...