Word: compaction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marceau must have surpassed all his childhood ambitions. His show is a pure delight, so beautiful it hurts, hypnotizing entire audiences sketch after sketch, show after show. Mobilizing every muscle in that gracefully compact body--down to the muscle that bends a thumb backwards at the joint to form a right angle of it--he becomes a vital embodiment of emotions that possess an intensity and beauty one rarely recognizes in the human form, no matter how present. In his famous pantomime, The Creation of the World, expressing the inexpressible for a fleeting moment he relates visually the most ineffable...
Right on target too. Today, 70% of AMC's production is in the compact Hornet and the subcompact Gremlin. The little cars have turned out to be a particular hit with younger buyers. In 1967 the average age of an AMC car buyer was 62; today...
...there is any hope for Europe's speaking with a strong and effective voice in the world, it can only be in the political form advocated by France: a compact between the states, not some faceless amalgam of regions governed by a parliamentary regime of bankrupt political parties, speaking Esperanto and cast adrift from their rich cultural and intellectual heritages...
Through January and the first ten days of February, compact and subcompact cars as a group (including imports) captured more than half the market for the first time-53%, to be exact...
...gradually learned by a young Anglican vicar, Mark Brian. He is fatally ill but does not know it, and has been sent to the village by his bishop to "learn enough of life to be ready to die." Much of Mark's story is presented as a marvelously compact and compelling semidocumentary. The reader meets the old and the young of the village, learns that much of the tribe's food is customarily spread with a kind of butter called gleena, made from slow-boiled candlefish, and is convinced that the elders mysteriously know whenever a stranger...