Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense that the Corleone family is a dynasty possessing a private army, administering a state within a state. Michael has to make the choice, time after time, between these different families--his weak brother Fredo sets him up for a "hit," his wife gets an abortion rather than bear him a second son--and at the end he has achieved neither respectability nor happiness. His mother is dead, he has had his brother killed, his wife has left him, and the old-time lieutenants have departed in one way or another--he has nothing to live for except his business...
...pictures in Travelog bear all the marks of his lofty aspirations, Each seems to be trying to shout. "I am profound!" They all have quick impact, as does any journalistic photograph, but many depart in their cropping or subject matter from traditional journalistic photography. His images of "The World" are particularly radical. In order to achieve forceful pictures of inanimate subjects. Harbutt has had to use his camera violently. He has adopted strange vantage points; he has had to look for hyper graphic qualities in his subject matter; he has isolated objects in a very unnatural way. The result...
...fifteen essays that focuses on some of these questions and tries to provide answers. The authors of the short pieces are drawn from the top ranks of science fiction writing: Frank Herbert, Frederik Pohl, Alan E. Nourse, Poul Anderson and Jack Williamson. They bring their considerable talents to bear on the issues confronting science fiction, but the end result, while absorbing, tends to be choppy. The essays run the gamut from a discussion of science fiction in the visual media to a detailed description of the way a writer creates an imaginary solar system, complete with charts and graphs...
...wine sold in this country. Gallo's pre-tax profits in 1971 reached $35 to $40 million, according to the Nov. 27 1972, issue of Time. Gallo's economic strength makes it possible for the company to recruit and transport strike breakers, to conduct large0scale public relations campaigns, to bear the costs of temporary production disruption due to strikes and to involve itself in drawn-out court cases. These are all expensive operations which companies with less market control and lower profits could not afford...
...updated system adapted to the universally changing conditions (rising cultures, new social theories, a worsening economy) that have rendered the old system anachronistic, it has not been replaced at all. What has taken over is an almost random assortment, of increasingly specialized individual courses that appear to bear little relation to each other and form no unified whole...