In its most recent catalog, the company offers two plastic sleds, the Ice Screamer and the Mighty Sled; two dishes, the Arctic Circle and the Mega Saucer; and a thin plastic sliding device called the Flexiboggan that rolls up.
In "Long Lake," the larger one being 10 by 36 feet, a stack of three long horizontal white rectangles is topped by a thin domed form, like a flying saucer.
They had found a way to create a ceramic with a delicate, almost flawless surface that was strong enough to be made into bowls, plates, cups and saucers that were almost as thin as paper – translucent, in fact: a material special enough to celebrate a marriage.
That probably explains the evolution to a saucer sled and ultimately, a simple sheet of thin plastic.
The one point in which my suspension of disbelief wore thin is a scene at the climax of the film where the diving saucer, at a depth of 1,000 feet, comes across an undersea lake with a cavern filled with apparently breathable oxygen.
What they showed those afternoons on Channel 7 — thin yet hectic fantasies, such as "Earth vs. the Spider, Earthth vs. the Flying Saucers," "Beginning of the End," and "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" — fed a fascination with science while also catering to a child's apocalyptic imagination as well as addressing a child's fears.
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If you watch a cat slowly lap up a saucer of milk, you'll know what an inefficient tool a tongue is for drinking a thin liquid.
Begin the evening with Queso Fundido, crumbled bits of chorizo sausage floating in a saucer of melted cheese; dip a spoon into the concoction and put it on hand-made, paper-thin corn tortillas.
