Word: ascendant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blood--an especially cruel reminder of the scene in the showers. DePalma has obviously deemed this moment as the climax of the film; he drags the viewer through an agonizing five-minute sequence shot entirely in slow motion. Discordant violin strains accompany the doomed couple as they ascend to the stage. The glow of Carrie's face pains us all the more as the camera pans to the bucket precariously perched on the rigging directly above her blonde head. The tension-building devices are strictly conventional--reminiscent of the contrived suspense of a made-for-TV movie--yet the impact...
Determined to operate on its own disciplined terms, Ziff-Davis offered Harris a raise, a car and a kick upstairs to the job of associate publisher-and fired him when he refused to ascend. He is being replaced as editor by Wesley First, a Ziff-Davis vice president. Says Harris, who has no immediate plans: "The vice presidents couldn't tolerate an editor who was unmanageable. We have a different set of values...
...being recruited in most major American cities. They then enter the complex levels of Scientology auditing and training. Brochures offer 12½ hours of "Life Repair," done with E-meter sessions, for $625, and it costs the "preClear" $5,000 or more to reach "Clear," more yet to ascend to "Operating Thetan...
...that with the 1947 Law of Succession, which declares Spain a monarchy; later he decreed that within eight days of his death his power would devolve upon Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, 37 (see box page 26), who as King of Spain will ascend the throne vacated 44 years ago by his grandfather, Alfonso XIII. Yet few observers expect the inexperienced, untested Prince to be able to control the political forces that will certainly be unleashed by Franco's departure...
...devaluation of language results from a feeling that somehow it is no longer effective. Samuel Johnson's society pinned its faith on language; Americans attach theirs to technology. It is not words that put men on the moon, that command technology's powerful surprises. Man does not ascend to heaven by prayer, the aspiration of language, but by the complex rockets and computer codes of NASA...