Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Electricity has been known to mankind since the 6th century B.C., when Thales of Miletus observed that amber, if rubbed, would attract bits of feathers and other light objects (the Greek word for amber is elektron). Only in modern times, however, have scientists discovered that some kind of electricity exists in most things, and in 1752 Benjamin Franklin demonstrated with his kite that it can be drawn from the sky. But what is electricity? What causes it? Where is it most evident in nature? These questions are much in the air nowadays, and almost every issue of the Royal Society...
Shaw is the name that dominates the movie business of Southeast Asia. Shaw Brothers' films, produced at Shaw's Movietown, shot in Shawscope color and shown in 143 Shaw-owned theaters, attract 250,000 people a day from Hong Kong to Jakarta, plus thousands more in Chinatowns around the world. Shaw Brothers grind out 40 titles a year (newest crop: Black Magic, Killer Clans, Five Shaolin Masters)−a sort of column A, column B menu of Oriental weepers with suicidal beauties, or Eastern Westerns featuring Kung Fu Mandarins...
...what they consider a poor showing. But the party is still young. Meanwhile, some 211,190 local citizens are having a celebration of their own: they have signed a petition for the recall of their mayor, Frank Rizzo. It is not yet apparent whether this event will serve to attract more tourists...
Game time is 7:30 for night games and 2:15 for afternoon starts--get there early for parking and seating reasons, because despite the Red Sox's unbelievable fold so far this year the fans still come out, if only to boo. Ordinarily the American League champion Sox attract the most fanatical and fickle supporters, the bleachers especially, since the most lonely and desperate rooters, as well as true believing young, hang out there. Check out the deformed solitary scribblers with their scorebooks in the right field stands...
There's a real split caucus in the Cambridge community about the jugglers who give street shows on the island on Brattle Street on weekend nights. They must be doing something right, because the crowds they attract are huge and enthusiastic--on the other hand, some Cantabridgeans object to the congestion in pedestrian traffic that results. Some others also resent the bullshit involved in this pale imitation of New Left "street entertainment for the people...