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...demands play upon a disingenuous theme. The threatened institutions ostensibly serve so crucial a function that citizens must endure IRS fishing expeditions into their pockets to finance them. Harvard has a holy mission to churn out graduate students, the better to enlighten dark corners of the nation; farmers must preserve the virginity of their soil, and the SACB must root out subversives who jeopardize national security--all paid for, to greater or lesser degree, with tax money...
...central-city theaters are currently doing a booming business with "black movies," a new geare of films featuring blacks in leading roles. They are often--but not always--written and directed by blacks. Most of the films have set box office records, and though Hollywood is straining itself to churn out the product, the black audience's appetite appears to go unsatisfied...
...Drew's smiles and grimaces and the boy's seeming impassivity the growing comprehension of the onlookers faces. And when we start to go downriver. Boorman's eye guiding Vilmos Szigmond's camera picks up the release of a smooth-skimming canoe when it catches the current, the disruptive churn of a sudden patch of rapids, the collected stillness of a stoned in pond...
...director of the four-year-old U.S.A. Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Arbatov heads a think tank of approximately 80 so-called Amerikanisti-the Kremlin's answer to Kremlinologists. They represent a new breed of Soviet information specialist who analyze facts rather than churn out propaganda. "We are neither professional peacemakers nor professional propagandists," Arbatov told TIME Correspondent John Shaw in Moscow last week, as he puffed on a Winston. "We are Marxists-Leninists, but within that frame of reference there is plenty of scope for understanding...
...sympathies were with the dog. I had to churn by hand...