Word: churning
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Historically, man's need to respond to seemingly irrelevant material was a tremendous adaptive advantage because it led to discoveries of quantitatively better ways to live. This advantage still exists and functions better in individuals than in institutions which may churn our these discoveries faster. The greatest value of such discoveries is in the making of them. As improvements, they hardly affect the quality of life. Moreover an institution making a collective discovery does not respond with joy of the charming human sort. The occasional incidents of one man's joy of discovery are perhaps more important to the quality...
...Nicholson's first try for an acting job, and it was 14 years before he was needed that badly. Then, as the one articulate, genuinely comic character in Easy Rider, Nicholson became a leading participant in the upheaval that has caused Hollywood, for better or for worse, to churn out an endless series of "relevant," youth-oriented little movies. The role won him the New York Film Critics' Award, an Academy Award nomination and a leading role in Director Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge. In the meantime he is appearing in Five Easy Pieces in a starring role...
...multihero angle, but neither one is genuinely mod or engrossing. The three attorneys, one a woman, earn their bread by serving a stuffy Los Angeles firm, and their kicks by melodramatically providing legal aid from a ghetto storefront. The five interns, including one female and one black, churn in a centrifuge of subplots as soaperific as any afternoon hospital show...
...Clemente is more a change of scene than a change of pace. He still starts his office appointments at 8:30 a.m., and it is often 6 p.m. before he can get away in his golf cart to the nearby villa. Cabinet ministers, aides, politicians and Republican candidates churn in and out of the small city (pop. 17,000) as the business of state continues. Nixon's changes of scene, of course, inevitably alter San Clemente's own scene for both good and ill. To assess the changes, TIME Correspondents Simmons Fentress and Timothy Tyler collaborated on this...
Denying Xerox's accusations, Bart M. Stevens, president of IBM's office-products division, said that the new copier uses a "specially developed photoconductor" that IBM patented in 1965. The 40-in.-high model can churn out letter-or legal-size copies at a 600-per-hour rate from a roll of plain white paper. It sells for $19,200 or rents for $200 a month plus 2.3? per copy...