Word: brits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long been recognized that drinking and driving do not mix, but many pot smokers believe that marijuana has little effect on their performance behind the wheel. They are dead wrong, according to Harry Klonoff, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Brit ish Columbia in Vancouver, B.C. Writ ing in Science, Klonoff describes how he and his associates tested 64 volunteers to determine how pot puffing affected their driving. The test subjects-all between the ages of 19 and 31-were well educated and were also experienced drivers. They were asked to drive through a complex course that included...
...York Yacht Club, holder of the Cup, is not scheduled to pick an American defender until final trials next month; it is still too soon for the aluminum backers to abandon ship. Optimism, though, is difficult to find in the Mariner camp. Brit Chance's boat was in drydock last week undergoing major surgery. The reason: her radical design -a hull that had a blunt, "fastback" stern instead of the traditional tapered underbody-simply had not worked...
...Ulster was the first trial by fire for the Tory government of Prime Minister Edward Heath, Britain 's economic crisis has now clearly become the second. A perennial cold-weather cycle of labor un rest, coupled with a diminished flow of oil from the Middle East, threatens Brit ons with their most difficult winter in years. It also threatens to destroy Heath 's anti-inflationary plans for ushering Brit ain into a new era of smooth expansion...
William Ritman has ingeniously solved the problem of whisking us from Lady Brit's lovely house, with its profusion of potted plants, to the makeshift Army shelter and, later, to Undershaft's foundry, with its gigantic experimental cannon. And Jane Greenwood has provided appropriate Edwardian costumes...
Director Edwin Sherin has elicited a remarkable set of performances from his fourteen main characters, with only two exceptions. Lee Richardson's Undershaft is best of all-forceful and unshakeable from start to finish. (And he really plays the prescribed tune from Doninetti's Lucia on a trombone). Lady Brit is his separated wife, a woman given to bossing and tossing off epigrams--clearly modeled on Lady Bracknell in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, written a decade earlier. Jan Miner, in a performance that brings to mind Jessica Tandy, is doing in this role far and away...