Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nonetheless recognizes that such caution still does not satisfy opponents of nuclear plants. Critics are especially concerned about the AEC-designed emergency core-cooling system, a backup device that is supposed to supply cooling water to the hot reactor in the event that the main water system breaks down. They point out that no one-including the AEC'S own experts-is sure it will work. Reason: the system has been tested only with theoretical computer models. But, says Ray, "most big projects are designed this way. NASA did not destroy an Apollo spacecraft to test how much stress...
...book already? It can. And against all odds, most of this book is a solid, fast-moving, highly professional job. The four young British journalists who produced it at such breathtaking speed have a refreshingly foreign perspective that often cuts through the confusions to the core of the complicated affair. Their judgments are hard, yet not unexpected. Richard Nixon, they write, is a "not very brainy President." He surrounded himself with "an elite of mean-minded, middlebrow conformists; men who were simply not up to the job of government...
...whores throws herself naked on a cake; sex and eating become one and the same. Except in that director Marco Ferreri depicts eating in complete pornographic detail while restricting his portrayal of sex to angles and acts which coyly protect his male stars and are well within the soft-core boundaries of major studio productions...
...straightforward method: He begins with decadence, then pushes it to its extreme. His timing is exact, always cutting away from a scene once depravity is well established, never carrying on for the sake of prurience. Followed properly, this method would shock, never titillate, but the double standards of soft-core pornography weaken The Grande Bouffe. The simulated sex becomes funny in otherwise serious scenes. The film leads from abuse of food to abuse of bodies, but the bodies are less real than the food, so the progression falls flat. A similar problem occurs in suggesting Michel Piccoli's gastric disturbances...
...CORE spokesman said that he hopes that the debate between Innis and Shockley on the subject of black genetic inferiority will be rescheduled here...