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...unused and unstudied, in musty archives. Most of the footage shot more than 50 years ago, on nitrate-base film, has already deteriorated, and those films that were not transferred to more durable acetate are lost to future historians forever. Film archives are in a general state of disarray. There is no comprehensive international film catalogue listing credits, content, and location of prints, and it seems unlikely that much will be done to rectify this deficiency until historians begin to realize that valuable material is rotting before their eyes. An efficient listing of existing prints might encourage more historians...
Edward Heath's Conservatives, who like to portray themselves as the party of law and order best equipped to calm a crisis-ridden nation, began the campaign amid signs of disarray. Two senior members of the Tory shadow cabinet have managed to undermine Heath's already weakened party leadership by differing with him on key is sues. Sir Keith Joseph, the shadow Home Secretary, led off by asserting that the answer to Britain's raging inflation lies primarily in manipulating the nation's money supply, not in imposing the kind of wage-price controls that...
What Mick Jagger and other doyens of the mid-1960s rock era had merely hinted at, Jimi Hendrix delivered right onstage. His hair frizzled as though by electricity, his scarves and sashes bobbing over sequined vests and velvet jackets in foppish disarray, he looked like a tripped-out savage impersonating a Carnaby Street dandy. His guitar was a throbbing phallic extension that he would caress, thrust at the audience, then set on fire at evening's end. The music was raw blues blasted out at maximum volume. Bursting on the rock scene in 1967 at the height...
...U.S.A. and The Real Majority) eyed each other over lunch and began to rethink their thesis for their next book. "How's this for the introduction?" asked Wattenberg. " 'It has been a tragic time for America. The President resigned under a dark cloud, leaving behind him in disarray one of the world's great political parties-the Democrats...
Throughout all of this there occurred a weakening in the alliance between the U.S. and Western Europe, caused partly by U.S. diplomatic failures, but mostly by new power relationships in the world and by the Europeans' own disarray and weakness. Eventually the Nixon Administration and the new governments in Western Europe seemed to be working out a sounder relationship...