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...revolutionary zeal and assurance, is dwarfed by the monitors, knobs and gadgetry that make news broadcasting possible. Like an electric scoreboard, one video monitor flashes the word "montage," then scrambles and transforms it into "usine," the French word for factory. Godard casts himself as a sad, alienated figure amidst the tools of his once inspiring labor...
...English rebounded the very next time around to gain possession of the Walker Cup for the first time at St. Andrews in 1938. The Cup was received amidst general exhiliaration to the lusty strains of "A Wee Deoch and Doris...
...long beef, but are not altogether justified. Manager Don Zimmer and pitching coach Al Jackson have been a svcond guesser'b dream with a lot of their moves and Tiant has never resembled the consistent craftsman who won 20 or more games three of the last four years. But amidst all this, the staff's earned run average is still a respectable 4.19, considering Fenway Park, the designated hitter and recent expansion...
...weakness of family structure, the presence of competing street values, and the lack of hope amidst affluence all around that make the American underclass unique among the world's poor peoples. Reports TIME Atlanta Bureau Chief Rudolph Rauch, who until recently was stationed in Latin America: "Almost anyone who has lived in or near the crowded barrios of South America knows that looting on the scale that occurred in New York could almost never happen there?and not because the army would be standing by to shoot looters. Family structure has not broken down in South America...
...lights dim, a suggestive voice booms forth: "We ask your cooperation by not smoking ... anything ... in the theater." Then, amidst the tumble effaces on the various screens, can be seen Marilyn Monroe, Doris Day, Peter Lawford, Marlon Brando and John F. Kennedy as President. The gloom of Kennedy's assassination breaks the mood, but not for long, as Ed Sullivan can be seen in 1964 announcing, with a wave of the arm: "Ladies and gentlemen...