Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been drumming up support from local merchants who would like to see Taunton ousted. He has also invested $150 in a red-white-and-blue floodlighted billboard on the main highway to Tallahassee. The Robin Hood Judge, meanwhile, was hand-painting campaign posters with his wife and teen-age son back at-what else-his log cabin home...
...stunning; yet there is no mistaking Days of Heaven for anything other than an American movie. Malick's ability to capture the terror in plain, homespun settings recalls the spooky vistas of Painter Edward Hopper. The film's naive narration-recited in deadpan colloquialisms by the teen-age Linda-is right out of Ring Lardner's sardonic stories. In the tradition of these other native ironists, Malick keeps his distance from his material. Though built around a heartbreaking love triangle, Days of Heaven has no introspective dialogue and no Freudian fireworks. Accordingly, actors have been cast more...
...reach four to eight times that of the pre-industrial level by the year 2150. That, predicts the panel, could produce an increase in the global mean air temperature of more than 6° C (11° F.)-creating climatic conditions that the earth has not seen since the age of the dinosaurs more than 70 million years...
There is another wrinkle in these climatological complications. For about two decades ending in the early 1970s, the earth was in what seemed to be a cooling phase. Some climatologists suggested that the chill marked the beginning of a "little ice age," like the one that persisted in Europe from about 1550 to 1850. If they are right, then the cooling forces-which could be attributable to anything from increased atmospheric dust to subtle changes in the amount of heat received from the sun-will be pitted against the warming force of the so-called greenhouse effect. For a while...
...higher death rate than people who live six miles away. Most of the difference was in stress-related disease. Meecham's target group of about 80,000 people in the Inglewood and Lennox sections near the airport was compared with a control group similar in number, age, income and racial balance. The target group had 40% more fatal strokes and 140% more deaths from cirrhosis of the liver. "These diseases may not be caused by the noise," says Meecham, "but it appears they are hurried along by the tension...