Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sheikdom of Abu Dhabi is not one of our heaviest circulation areas, but TIME has had an impact on the Persian Gulf state of 50,000. An article we ran four years ago described efforts by University of Arizona scientists to grow vegetables in the desert. The story so intrigued Sheik Zaid bin Sultan al Nahayan, that he gave the university's Environmental Research Laboratory more than $3,000,000 to build an experimental "controlled environment greenhouse" on the tiny island of Saadiyat off the Abu Dhabi coast...
Rushed to a top-secret desert laboratory to study a mysterious microbe from outer space, scientists in Michael Crichton's 1969 novel The Andromeda Strain undergo a thorough physical examination before they are allowed to start work. Their hearts, lungs and brain waves are all checked, their body fluids are analyzed, and their immunities to various diseases boosted by shots. But no doctor takes part in the process; the entire examination is automated. Says one member of the team to a colleague: "That machine-you'd better not let the A.M.A. find out about it." The A.M.A. already...
...screen time-were cut from Lawrence of Arabia after its initial roadshow presentation. It is the cut print which is being exhibited in the current re-release. The first scene mutilated was an addition to Lawrence's second interview with General Allenby, when, upon begging permission to leave the desert, Lawrence is persuaded by his commanding officer that he is an "extraordinary" man-which explains Lawrence's subsequent hysterical tone during the drive to Damascus and the massacre of Turkish troops at Tafas. The second scene, set in a Turkish hospital in Damascus, displayed Lawrence's sense...
Lean did, however, provide compensations. He constructed his picture fastidiously: each scene attains its own symmetry, and is skillfully cantilevered with narrative thrust to the next scene. The film rarely lags. One of the more obvious examples of Lean's technical prowess is the sequence depicting Lawrence's initial desert journey and his growing friendship with his Bedouin guide. It is composed of strict horizontal pans flatly cut by two-shots or close-ups of the camel-mounted pair. When panning with them. Lean cuts both on movement and desert shapes so that not only is the motion shown...
Above all, there is Fred Young's photography. To describe a single instance is to do the man injustice. It is too bad that his desert must stand for Maurice Jarre's atonal Oriental ghoulash. But the film survives Jarre; with its mammoth views of sights not seen since Lawrence's time, it rides roughshod over its own flaws...