A bold line of violet broke loose from the high ridge of the mountains, followed by feathers of red that swept the last stars from the sky.

The formed stars are sometimes known as a young, loose cluster.

Twenty years after Days of Heaven, Malick returned to film directing in 1998 with The Thin Red Line, a loose adaptation of the James Jones World War II novel of the same name, for which he gathered a large ensemble of famous stars.

His 1980 novel Headlong, the fictional story of the unexpected death of the entire British royal family in a freak accident in 1930, and the ascension of a most unlikely heir to the British throne as a result, was the loose basis of the 1991 motion picture King Ralph which stars John Goodman, Peter O ' Toole, John Hurt and Camille Coduri.

He toured with a loose collective of punk and post-punk stars, Dead Men Walking, which included Mike Peters of The Alarm, Kirk Brandon of Theatre of Hate and Spear of Destiny, and Pete Wylie of Wah!

In The New Rolling Stone Album Guide ( 2004 ), Rolling Stone journalist Rob Sheffield gave the album five out of five stars and cited it as " where Newman got loose as a rock & roller, ditching the complex orchestrations for a bluesy, easy-swinging satire of America ".

* NGC 6709 is a loose open cluster containing approximately 40 stars, which range in magnitude from 9 to 11.

These designations mean that it does not have many stars, is loose, does not show greater concentration at the center, and has a moderate range of star magnitudes.

Along with four other stars in this well-known asterism, Phecda forms an actual loose, association of stars known as the Ursa Major moving group.

Beta Ursae Majoris is one of five stars in the Big Dipper that form a part of a loose open cluster called the Ursa Major moving group, sharing the same region of space and not just the same patch of sky by our perspective.

The five brightest stars belong to loose open cluster Collinder 359 or Melotte 186.

One of these, showing quite new effects produced in a model theatre, was the wonder of the day, with its use of lights behind canvas representing the moon and stars, and the illusion appearance of running water produced by clear blue sheets of metal and gauze, with loose threads of silver.

The film is a loose adaptation of the animated science fiction television series of the same name, which was created by animator Peter Chung ( who had a minor role in this film version of his work ) and stars Charlize Theron as the title character.

Robinson Crusoe is a 1997 film directed by Rod Hardy and George T. Miller and stars Pierce Brosnan playing Robinson Crusoe in this loose adaptation of Daniel Defoe's classic novel.

In strict analysis, abbreviations should not be confused with contractions or acronyms ( including initialisms ), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term " abbreviation " in loose parlance. An abbreviation is a shortening by any method ; a contraction is a reduction of size by the drawing together of the parts.

Therefore, four loose families of more-efficient light transport modelling techniques have emerged: rasterization, including scanline rendering, geometrically projects objects in the scene to an image plane, without advanced optical effects ; ray casting considers the scene as observed from a specific point-of-view, calculating the observed image based only on geometry and very basic optical laws of reflection intensity, and perhaps using Monte Carlo techniques to reduce artifacts ; and ray tracing is similar to ray casting, but employs more advanced optical simulation, and usually uses Monte Carlo techniques to obtain more realistic results at a speed that is often orders of magnitude slower.

* Stage IV: Twenty-four to thirty-six hours after last dose: Increase in all of the above including severe cramping and involuntary leg movements (" kicking the habit "), loose stool, insomnia, elevation of blood pressure, moderate elevation in body temperature, increase in frequency of breathing and tidal volume, tachycardia ( elevated pulse ), restlessness, nausea

A loose confederation of anti-Bolshevik forces aligned against the Communist government, including land-owners, republicans, conservatives, middle-class citizens, reactionaries, pro-monarchists, liberals, army generals, non-Bolshevik socialists who still had grievances and democratic reformists, voluntarily united only in their opposition to Bolshevik rule.

Cook formed Beats International, a loose confederation of studio musicians including vocalists Lindy Layton, Lester Noel, D. J.

While a number of possible models were considered, including that of a loose federation, the solution finally adopted was that of an integrated institution, Concordia University, operating under the existing Sir George Williams charter.

" Cabbage " was originally used to refer to multiple B. oleracea varieties, including those with loose or non-existent heads.

The Chicago-based AACM, a loose collective of improvising musicians including Muhal Richard Abrams, Henry Threadgill, Anthony Braxton, Jack DeJohnette, Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Famadou Don Moye, Malachi Favors and George Lewis was formed in 1965 and included many of the key players in the nascent international free improv scene.

He also wrote a number of commentaries on Aristotle, including the first in the West of Posterior Analytics, and one on Aristotle's Physics, which has survived as a loose collection of notes or glosses on the text.

Rather, it was a personal and " autobiographical album " that contained " a loose collection of songs written between 1956 and 1989 ... covered the years of ground between his childhood, career, divorce, and dysfunctional family life ", including several previously unreleased songs that focused on his family and his sense of home, which was distributed through Benson Records.

Up to and including the 19th century, candy of all sorts was typically sold by weight, loose, in small pieces that would be bagged as bought.

In a 2004 broadcast on BBC Radio 5, it was reported that the site is still contaminated with ' thousands ' of metric tons of toxic chemicals, including benzene hexachloride and mercury, held in open containers or loose on the ground.

It took the form to new heights using the London Festival Orchestra, a loose affiliation of Decca's classical musicians given a fictitious name adding the term " London " to sound impressive, to provide an orchestral linking framework to the Moodies already written and performed songs, plus overture & conclusion sections on the album including backing up Graeme Edge's opening & closing poems recited by Pinder.

Lavinia Dickinson did burn almost all of her sister's correspondences, but interpreted the will as not including the forty notebooks and loose sheets, all filled with almost 1800 poems ; these Lavinia saved and began to publish the poems that year.

During this period, Kieślowski was considered part of a loose movement with other Polish directors of the time, including Janusz Kijowski, Andrzej Wajda, and Agnieszka Holland, called the Cinema of Moral Anxiety.

The term " mineral makeup " applies to a category of face makeup, including foundation, eye shadow, blush, and bronzer, that is made with loose, dry mineral powders.

The term " musket " is applied to a variety of weapons, including the long, heavy guns with matchlock or wheel lock and loose powder fired with the gun barrel resting on a stand, and also lighter weapons with Snaphance, flintlock or caplock and bullets using a stabilizing spin ( Minié ball ), affixed with a bayonet.

This work included recreating and attaching almost 100 missing ornamental features including heraldic shields, an angel, pinnacles, crockets and finials ; securing weak or fractured masonry with stainless steel pins and rods and re-attaching decorative items which had previously been removed after becoming loose.

Although " Der Kommissar " saw nearly contemporaneous and fairly straightforward mainstream covers including the loose translation by After The Fire and the reinterpretation by Laura Branigan, both in 1982 / 1983, Falco's song " Rock Me Amadeus " has seen more frequent use.

As the ceremony draws near, a series of mishaps occur, including Jim's grandmother being displeased that Michelle is not Jewish and Jim shaving his pubic hair, then disposing of it too close to a vent that causes it to be set loose all over the wedding cake.

Kookaburras occupy woodland territories ( including forests ) in loose family groups, and their laughter serves the same purpose as a great many other bird calls — to demarcate territorial borders.

In Broward County, officials did not attempt to produce the ballots reported as undervotes or overvotes by the machine count ; instead, they presented the ballots that remained as undervotes or overvotes after the official county recount, which had given Gore a net 567 additional votes, and which had been conducted under loose standards, including counting as legal votes ballots with " dimpled " chad.

Lowell followed Life Studies with Imitations ( 1961 ), a volume of loose translations of poems by classical and modern European poets, including Rilke, Montale, Baudelaire, Pasternak, and Rimbaud, for which he received the 1962 Bollingen Poetry Translation Prize.

The second half of the book also shows Lowell returning once again to writing loose translations ( including verse approximations of Dante, Juvenal, and Horace ).

Anne, though from a noble family-she was a daughter of Simon Luttrell, 1st Earl of Carhampton, and the widow of Christopher Horton of Catton Hall-seems to have been rather loose with her favours, given one wag's comment that she was " the Duke of Grafton's Mrs Houghton, the Duke of Dorset's Mrs Houghton, everyone's Mrs Houghton.

The story served as the very loose basis for the made-for-television film The Eligible Bachelor starring Jeremy Brett as Holmes, Edward Hardwicke as Watson and Simon Williams as Lord Robert St Simon, the screenplay of which turned St Simon into a villainous " Bluebeard " character who had married and disposed of a series of wealthy women before marrying Hatty Doran.

Simon is unexpectedly cut loose by Earl Guthwulf, an old courtier of Elias ' court who had been struck blind in a fight with Pryrates.

Jesus's statement to Simon Peter, " whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven ", is understood in Roman Catholic theology as establishing two jurisdictions, Heaven and Earth ; the silver and gold keys are said to represent these two jurisdictions.