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...picture-making process is far too complex to compete with Polaroid for the amateur snapshot market. But for some special applications, its lack of negatives or complicated chemical developers is a distinct asset. All that is necessary is to spray the film's photoconductive plastic top with an easily generated positive charge of static electricity. The bottom layer of the film carries an equal, but opposite, negative charge. Those two electric charges, although powerfully attracted to each other, are kept apart by the thin plastic film...
...Heart. Elusive and frail as a sparrow in the hands of any but the most mystically attuned writers and performers, the teen feel has inherited much of its style and sound from rhythm and blues, and much of its spirit from country music. But its creators consider it sharply distinct just the same. Country music, they say, comes from a hard, God-loving life in the sticks. Rhythm and blues comes from the soul. What remains in popular music is mainly the teen feel which, of course, is all heart...
...writing habits. Morton had Dr. Michael Levison of Birkbeck College program the London computer to check the frequency and use of kai, a common Greek word meaning and, also, even, etc., in sentences drawn from nine classical writers-including Plato and Plutarch-found that each had a clear and distinct pattern in the way he handled his kais...
...Hobbys hastened to assure her that the papers would operate as they have in the past, as "distinct public serv ants." And though the purchase gave the Houston Post Company a commanding position in East Texas, crew-cut Post Managing Editor William P. Hobby Jr., 30, Oveta's boy, was quick to hush speculation that it was out for more. "Much as I like the sound of the phrase," said he, "this is not the start of an empire...
...outset of his piece on "The Administration and the Left" Schlesinger delineates two distinct, historical strains in American progressivism. The "pragmatic" strain "accepts, without approving, the given structure of society and strives to change it by action from within." The "utopian" strain "rejects the given structure of society, root and branch, and strives to change it by exhortation from without...