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That is not the easiest thing to do, since Oblomov spends the first half of the film either in bed or resisting efforts to get him up and moving again. The absentee owner of an estate that is going to pot (as he is), he first nodded off in the midst of a career in the tsarist bureaucracy, and all attempts to interest him in alternative occupations cause him to pull the covers more tightly over his head. Oblomov has seen the future-industrialization, go-getterism-and decided it doesn't work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lovers and Laziness | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...Halem's color graphic terminals "is designed to play information from the shuttle in a format that is easiest for the ground controller to read," he said. If either the shuttle or the fuel tanks go astray and threaten to land in populated areas, "my display will light up and warn the controllers" who may then elect to destroy them, he added...

Author: By William J. Jason, | Title: Student Helps Design Programs For Space Shuttle Computers | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

...Street refuses romance. The power of the film lies in its very recognition of the powerlessness which people face, when the explanations for death are too easily found in race and when this history of racial prejudice becomes so much a part of us--it becomes the easiest defense we can muster. Sadly, the cliches too often come true, especially in Boston and Cambridge. Egleson makes no pretense of solving the dilemma for this neighborhood. There were no guard railings on the roof the night the boy fell; there are none to restrict people's behavior when it comes...

Author: By Eve M. Troutt, | Title: Another Side of Cambridge | 3/3/1981 | See Source »

...magician will tell you that the easiest audience to fool is the most intelligent one, the most well-educated. They have the quickest eyes, and make the most assumptions...

Author: By Stephen R. Latham, | Title: Magic and The Big Lie | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...extensions of his arrangement schemes, offering fragments of dialogue and images to complement his music. "Up The Hill Backwards," "Ashes to Ashes" and "Because You're Young" are abstruse in specific meaning, but convey a definite mood of danger and intrigue. The weakest track, "Fashion," is also the easiest to understand, a meditation on disco culture of little import...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAVID BOWIE | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

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