Word: dwarfs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense the last. For not only was he in control of his machine, he was its partner; it was still possible to love it. Today's vast machines, casually performing vastly greater feats, exact service; but they scorn affection. They require large teams to tend them, and dwarf the individual...
When the film focuses on Bernard, all is fair and funny; but there are too many absurd inside bits that become outsize bites, eating away at the film's essential innocence. Michael Dunn as a dwarf actor, Michael O'Sullivan as a one-legged albino hypnotherapist, and Julie Harris as a spinster with a girl-hating rooster stagger through scenes that suffer from fallen archness; and the names of almost everyone-I. H. Chanticleer, Miss Thing, Barbara Darling, a dog named Dog-only force the farce...
When the film focuses on Bernard, all is fair and funny; but there are too many absurd inside bits that become outsize bites, eating away at the film's essential innocence. Michael Dunn as a dwarf actor, Michael O'Sullivan as a one-legged albino hypnotherapist, and Julie...
...Markets are too small. The U.S. market, the world's biggest, is more than six times as large as that of any one European country. With that base for mass production and sales, U.S. corporations dwarf most of their European competitors. With few exceptions, European companies are still chopped up into national units. Despite the Common Market, their managers have so far been unable to overcome disparate systems of law and taxation to merge into multinational European companies-such as a scarcely dreamed-of Fiat-Volkswagen-Citroën combine...
Visible only through powerful tele scopes, the star R Monocerotis glows faintly in the constellation of Unicorn. For years it has been considered a puzzling "dwarf" that lived in the Milky Way; astronomers could not explain either its dimness or its complex spectrum. Now, as they have long suspected, they have learned that there is much more to the obscure star than meets the eye. In an article in Nature, Astrophysicist Frank Low, 33, and Rice University Graduate Student Bruce Smith, 23, report that R Monocerotis (R designates the star; Monocerotis is Latin for uni corn) may well...