Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent Cambridge appearance of two plans by Alain Tanner, a young Swiss director, provides a suitable target for thought for those concerned with contemporary moral and artistic decay. The widescale ballyboo over these films seems to indicate the final jading of the already over cultized Cambridge film audience...
...crumbling walls and underpinning of the Forum, another $4,000,000. But Rome has the highest municipal debt in Italy, around $3 billion: it is in effect bankrupt. And the deterioration of antica Roma is only one in a series of revelations of decay in Italy's most famous monuments that have popped up, like Banquo's ghost, to alarm conservationists this summer...
...CLAUDIUS Hurtling back through history for a couple of millenniums, we encounter the parlous state of Rome in decay as depicted in I, Claudius. Historical plays of this sort are like a cram course with illustrated color slides. The audience can never quite settle down to the entertainment for fear of some impending exam. Knowing the names of the characters does not really help, since their natures change with bewildering rapidity. Click: here is Messalina gamely struggling to protect her virginity from Caligula. Presto: here is Messalina, Empress to Claudius, cuckolding him wholesale in the foulest brothels of Rome...
...fossil-laden sediment from the ocean floor. The standard method for determining the age of fossils is the so-called carbon 14 clock, which is based on the ratio of ordinary carbon atoms to atoms of the radioactive isotope carbon 14 found in the specimen. The carbon 14 atoms decay at a known rate and are not replenished after the creature dies; thus the proportion of ordinary carbon to carbon 14 slowly increases. But the carbon clock only works up to about 50,000 years after the death of the organism. After that time, almost all the carbon...
...President Salvador Allende Gossens bragged that "the Chilean road toward socialism has been reached with the least cost of any other revolution in the world." Unfortunately for Marxist Allende, Chile's socialist road now seems to be rather bumpy. Last week, in the wake of continuing economic decay, Allende announced a sweeping austerity program of "work, sacrifice and savings...