Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shroud, its garish yellow, black and red skin exposed to the light of day. Soon more than 300 Air Force and Convair scientists, engineers and technicians were primping and pampering "the Bird," grooming its round and bulbous nose, its disproportionately thick waist, its flared skirt, its unbelievably complex and exotic mechanism. One day soon, perhaps late in April, perhaps early in May, the Bird will make its first flight. From a sickle-shaped launching pad near a sunny vacation shore the Bird will be fired, minus its warhead, on an 1,800-mile test shot southeastward across tropic islands...
...land, now occupied by houses, small truck gardens and undeveloped brush land, lies in the heart of Sarnia's famed "chemical valley," surrounded by Canada's biggest complex of petrochemical industries. The new owners plan to divide the land into industrial sites. To the delight of Sarnia city officials, the formerly tax-free property will now go on the tax books to help support the city's overstrained municipal services...
...authority and independence it is permitted to exercise, or is able to seize for itself, and the nature of its influence on public opinion, throw light on the real balance of power in a society." Newspapers can no longer influence readers as they did when government was less complex and the electorate less educated. As the phenomenally successful Lord Northcliffe once told Daily Mail staffers, "We don't direct the ordinary man's opinion. We reflect it." Though high production costs and what Williams calls "trustification" have killed more than 475 newspapers in Britain...
...annotated dance score aloud (da-da-da-da, da-di-da-di) to see how its rhythms keyed with those of the flute. Then she translated the rhythms into movements. The completed Duet, premiered last year, was an elegant, admirably contained piece. Last week's far more complex work, also choreographed by Jean Erdman, was a wittily detailed examination of the love life of a voraciously modern woman and a hesitantly questing male. Leading Dancers Erdman and Donald McKayle defined the amorous counterpoint in elaborately postured movements grotesquely amplified by a corps of eight dancers and echoed...
Proof is spread all over the pages of his new novel, the consistently funny story of the heartland rube who went to New York dressed in an inferiority complex and won through to the jackpot. Midwesterner Jack Jordan has written a book-club selection in his spare time while working at the old family foundry (Bissell himself had worked at the old family pajama factory). When a couple of brash young producers summon him to New York and ask him to turn the book into a play, he feels like an impostor. But with the help of a shrewd director...