Word: craned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brattle St. was permanently closed off several years ago, but "it just didn't work out," Councilor Kevin Crane 72 said last night. "There was a lot of business opposition." Crane said...
...Crane was the only councilor to oppose Vellucci's motion, which requires the traffic department to set up sawhorses at the ends of the malls and signs "signifying to one and all that this is a people's mall...
...revolutions are unique, for roughly the same reasons that, as Tolstoy said, all unhappy families are unhappy in different ways. In The Anatomy of Revolution, the late Crane Brinton, the Harvard historian, attempted to formulate the stages of revolution. First, in Brinton's model, comes the euphoric phase of good feeling, when expectations and perfectionist rhetoric run high. Soon the practical tasks of governing split moderates and radicals. In the second stage, extremists rise and consolidate their power. Next comes the Terror, when the regime desperately tries to accomplish revolutionary goals no matter what the cost in blood. This...
...Advent has had bad relations with the neighborhood and its relations with the city were not much better. The president [of Advent] was going his own way--he was not going to work with anyone," City Councilor Kevin P. Crane '73 said yesterday...
...badly edited take-offs, where the colors stink of chemicals and you can tell that any life has been squeezed out in special effects laboratories. Director Richard Donner and the late cameraman Geoffrey Unswerth provide some striking compositions (although the camerawork is far too heavy on rising and dipping crane shots), but Donner puts them together ineptly--whole sequences seem chopped up and hurried, and the images don't flow into each other. Superman is 100% studio hype; is the public so gullible that it can flock to a film because the studio says it's a hit, because Warner...