Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become sturdier and engines not only much more powerful but much more reliable. The FAA, the manufacturers and the airlines poured millions into developing better flight control equipment?sophisticated radars and navigation aids. Military innovations were adopted for commercial use. The FAA steadily tightened flight regulations, prescribing in minute detail how and where planes should fly, how they should be controlled from the ground...
...short, Eagle is an action film of a rather traditional sort-meaning that however improbable it is in detail, it retains some sense of scale and traditional human virtues. It is well played by a cast that includes Donald Sutherland, veering interestingly from dark to light moods as an Irish nationalist making a temporary alliance with the Germans, as well as several old-reliable English character people. Modest, well crafted, less bloody and less bloody-minded than most TV shows, it is a PG film that any P ought to be happy to G the kids through. Richard Schickel
Carter then proceeded to outline in detail an ambitious agenda for Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's talks with Brezhnev in Moscow this week (see THE WORLD). Said Carter: "We don't know whether or not we'll be successful at all. But we go in good faith, with high hopes...
...whatever reassurance it may be worth, a surprising number of energy experts questioned by TIME correspondents around the nation contend that it really is not necessary for Carter and Schlesinger to get every detail of the energy program right at the outset. The prime essential, in their view, is to convince the public and Congress that a real crisis exists, and that the Government is genuinely moving to meet it. Passage of even an inadequate energy program, they think, will be an indispensable plus; mistakes and errors can be corrected later, once momentum is established...
Zeffirelli has an eye for historical detail, and one of his major achievements is to place Jesus solidly within the ethos of 1st century Judaism. At the wedding feast of Mary and Joseph, men perform a chaste dance of celebration. During Jesus' bar mitzvah, Mary gazes with the women from behind the mechitzah (barrier) at the Nazareth synagogue. There are also some deft touches from everyday life. One of the soldiers gripes, "I can hardly wait to get back to Rome," as he ambles down the cemetery path to discover an empty tomb that will change the course...