Word: compressive
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Partly Political. Says a ranking Administration official: "It was not a portentous, cataclysmic one-shot decision. We consider it a tactical decision." The bombing, he adds, was "partly political, partly military': "We are trying to compress the amount of time the North Vietnamese have to decide on whether the offensive is worth continuing and whether they have the means to continue it." The White House military argument is that bombing supply depots and petroleum stores in northern North Viet Nam now will hurt the enemy in the front lines six to eight weeks hence. However, experts in South Viet...
...style, says Cartier-Bresson, requires "a velvet hand, a hawk's eye." Carrying a single camera covered with black tape to make it as unobtrusive as possible, he has managed to compress life into 35-mm. frames. He calls himself a "discoverer" and says that his success "depends on intuition, very quick guessing. When you take a good picture, it jumps out, like an orgasm...
...Where's Poppa?. Carl Reiner's manic and excruciatingly funny film about what a son is to do when his aged mother just won't leave him alone. The whole movie operates at a hyped-up level that does not so much ignore reality as compress it. Reiner has also succeeded in finding a visual equation for his primarily verbal humor on occasion. George Segal is the son, Ruth Gordon is Mom, and there are awfully nice bits by character actor Ron Leibman and an ingenue named Trish Van Devere...
...present form, STAR occupies more than 100 cubic feet of space. For the "grand tours," Avižienis hopes to compress it into two cubic feet and reduce its power needs to 50 watts-less than most ordinary light bulbs. Avižienis thinks that such a tiny, trusty brain also might be useful closer to earth: monitoring the guidance systems of supersonic aircraft, controlling high-speed trains, and even standing watch over the vital functions of seriously ill patients in hospital wards...
...first, you've got to start thinking about the second. And the third. And the fourth. It's like an obstacle course. You're evading all the time. The whole thing is over in about two minutes. But into those two minutes you seem to compress your whole life...