Word: barriere
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...aluminum and fiber-glass body; the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. agreed to foot most of the bill (about $200,000) and supply tires guaranteed to 850 m.p.h. Breedlove named the car Spirit of America-Sonic I, obliquely announced: "I'm not going to try to break the sound barrier-unless I have...
...audience is not allowed to become overly involved; Godard's detachment sets up an impassable barrier. Since there is no real plot, one cannot predict what will happen next. The characters are seen so selectively that no conclusions about them can be drawn, let alone a moral. And the sexier scenes, which might arouse at least a biological response, are deliberately undercut: though extraordinarily explicit, the love-making is shown in a series of disjoined extreme close-ups that fade quickly in and out. A huge male hand rubbing a huge female belly for three seconds looks a lot less...
...Joseph Kennedy Sr., mother of the late president, represented the Kennedy family and pleaded that "the last barrier to the construction of the Library...be eliminated...
Milk in Kuwait. The language barrier, thanks to expert dubbing, is the most readily surmounted. Japan uses classic Kabuki actors to speak for Bonanza's Cartwrights, although their services often cost as much as the purchase price of the tape. Subtitles come much cheaper, but audiences in the richer nations like Germany won't abide them, viewers in the poorer ones can't read them. Not that a lot does not get lost in the translations. In the original version of a Zane Grey Theater episode, the villain burst into a saloon, hammered his fist...
...younger people to serious reading. "Soon a person is going from a 75? novel to a $5 novel," says Joseph B. Anderson, owner of a bookshop in Larchmont, N.Y. "It's an easy transition, once they're hooked on books." Once they are hooked, cost is no barrier; hardcover prices have gone up almost as much as sales, today average $6.93, 32% more than five years...