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...track, and in people's lives. The language of the film was energy cycles--how people key up and run down, how they invest energy and spend it. The theme was abstract and didn't need a story--the plot was unimportant, events didn't have to connect in conventional ways. Much of the undercurrent of ebb and flow was achieved by Altman's technique of using multiple-track microphones, so an audience could hear half a dozen conversations in a poker palace at once, or hear someone out in the half as easily as the person at the next...
...ability to love, and in her struggle to be independent abandoned her child to a boorish husband. Perhaps Lessing has mellowed now: perhaps Emily and the narrator are closer to Margaret, the earth mother figure of E.M. Forster's Howard's End, and, like her, can end with "Only connect...
...building, begun the day after Commencement two years ago, will connect Lamont, Widener and Houghton libraries when opened to students in January. The official opening will occur either in late Spring or early Fall...
...base hits, and the Angel catcher stuffs a half-inch-thick pad of foam rubber into his glove. The reason: Ryan throws so hard he rewrites the basic customs of the game. Batters inch back because they are scared, managers yank top hitters because they can't connect on high fastballs, Ryan's own outfielders are lulled to sleep by the preponderance of infield outs his pitches produce, and his catcher will do anything to keep his hand from turning to raw meat...
...huge canal would connect the Pechora River-which flows north into the Barents Sea region of the Arctic Ocean-with the southward-flowing Kama River, a tributary of the mighty Volga (see map page 82). Once the link is made and the necessary dams constructed, part of the Pechora's water will be diverted downhill into the Kama and thence into the Volga, which is the Caspian's major source of new water. The increased flow should stabilize the level of the inland sea. At a recent meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, the Soviets...