Word: containing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made no secret of her reluctance to move into the forbidding Elysée Palace, official home of French Presidents since 1879. During the campaign, she remarked, "Mme. de Gaulle told me that the Elysée was not very livable." Indeed, the palace's private quarters contain only two bedrooms, and major renovations will be needed before all six Giscards can move there. Mme. Giscard would much prefer to reside in the family home in the exclusive 16th arrondissement and use the palace as an office...
...design of some of the world's most powerful particle accelerators. His scheme for space colonies was recently the subject of a day-long scientific meeting in Princeton, and will soon be discussed at length in the journal Physics Today. Basically, O'Neill proposes building completely self-contained space communities in the form of cylinders some 16 miles long and four miles in diameter. The cylindrical worlds would contain water, an atmosphere, earth-style farm land, fish, birds and other fauna. They would even have their own earthlike gravity, in the form of centrifugal force produced by rotation...
...typical day off begins in midmorning when Jackson climbs out of bed in his penthouse apartment overlooking downtown Oakland. (Later this year he will move into an $85,000 condominium in the Berkeley Hills.) Once he has selected the day's outfit from three oversized closets that contain 100 shirts and pairs of pants, twelve leather jackets ("I've got every color") and a dozen hats, he heads to a diner called Lois the Pie Queen for brunch...
...sinking. The Baileys-he, a 42-year-old printer's clerk and she, a 33-year-old tax officer-were not particularly well equipped. Before Auralyn sank, they salvaged 33 cans of food, ranging from steak-and-kidney-pie filling to treacle, along with a variety of plastic containers for collecting rain water, a knife and a handful of safety pins. Incredibly, the Baileys' emergency kit did not contain fishhooks; the pins enabled them to catch small fish. Big turtles let themselves be grabbed by a flipper and, with some difficulty, wrestled aboard and butchered...
Their Dybbuk is a sequence of abstract, related dance episodes that imply but do not explicitly contain a narrative structure. All this would be fine had not the collaborators approached their task with such owlish solemnity. Sequences of the ballet are described in the program notes as if they were stages of a sacred liturgy rather than parts of an evening's entertainment. For instance, a rather ordinary set of variations for male dancers is summed up as "The Quest for Secret Powers." In this case, rite does not make might...