Word: descent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much of their behavior carries a socially deterministic message, we also can't relax into the mindlessly pleasurable state that a good crime story can induce. We are caught in annoying limbo, made more vexing by the picture's occasional flashes of satirical intelligence (a brief descent into the chic drug culture of Beverly Hills, the hard cynicism of Zerbe and his associates). Finally, Who'll Stop the Rain is just another ambitious downer, a wasted effort to make something meaningful out of wasted lives. -Richard Schickel
...much reason to think at all about this spectacular but isolated deep-water port on the continent's barren southwestern coastline. Apart from the harbor and its railroad connections, Walvis Bay has little to recommend even to its inhabitants: 10,000 whites of mixed British, Dutch and German descent, 4,000 "coloreds," and 11,000 blacks, most of them migrant workers from other parts of South West Africa...
...space efforts, NASA is still struggling to save the unoccupied Skylab space station from plunging prematurely to earth. Late last year, Skylab began to show a dangerous loss of altitude, a byproduct of atmospheric effects caused by unexpectedly strong sunspot activity during the current solar cycle. Skylab's descent is being hastened by its wobbling motion, which increases friction as the ship moves through stray molecules of atmosphere in its path. Ground controllers twice tried unsuccessfully to stabilize the craft, hoping to keep it aloft at least until the end of 1979. By then the space shuttle...
Music, however, is not the only interest Russia holds for Kogan. She is a harpist of Slavic descent; this trip to Russia is a "Roots-inspired journey to go back to the homeland...
Nina J. Lahoud '78 is a Middle Eastern Studies concentrator of Lebanese-American descent. She spent the summer of 1975 in Lebanon during the civil war, and last summer was an intern for the Near Eastern desk of the State Department in Washington...