Word: brief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks after your Essay on the population bomb appeared [Oct. 24], the world's population had grown by something over 2.5 million people. Does anyone feel that in that brief period the world generated enough assets to feed, clothe and educate them...
...book is devoted to the typical travelers' items (a visit to a school, a jail, a hospital), the rest is taken up by conversations with normal Chinese, instead of the official spokesmen who populate most works on China. Schell has a healthy bias against official statements, the "Brief Introductions" that are supposed to inform the visitor about a particular Chinese institution. Too often, he suggests, the "B.I.s" lack depth, as the guide rattles off the revolutionary phrases without appearing to think about them...
...books, like Blind Date, his most recent work, unfold as a series of brief dramatic episodes. Usually these vignettes bear only tangential relationships to each other, tied together by the slender thread of a common character...
...effect, a CB rig offers a form of power to the powerless of our society, a way for them to make themselves heard in a world that does not pay them much heed. This is what has become of the Middle Americans who exercised such a powerful, if brief, hold on journalistic and political imaginations back in the Nixon era. They are no longer fomenting a counterrevolution; they are out there on the highways talking crazy to one another...
...camera lens, creating the optical effect known as lens flare. Says he: "We used that technique in order to have those UFO objects pass over, through or around whatever the human action was in the scene. You never really distinctly see anything except in a few very brief cuts...