Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rossif's movie isn't as directly relevant to the fight against the Greek dictatorship as Z was, the connection between what went on in Spain 35 years ago and what's going on in the Mediterranean now is anything but farfetched. Spain marked the end of a peculiar epoch in modern history, a time when intellectuals dared to commit themselves to political causes, to believe passionately in them and to fight for them. It was an heroic era, and Rossif's film is in part a memorial to that heroism. Showings begin at 7 and 9:30, admission...
...moment at least, Israel is steadfastly opposing any conciliatory overtures to the P.L.O. Visiting Nahariya last week, Premier Yitzhak Rabin pledged "an epoch of perpetual war against terrorism." Israel's government so far refuses to deal with any Palestinians except those who live in Gaza or on the West Bank, and then only as Jordanian citizens. The Israeli government will not accept the concept of a Palestinian state except as a demilitarized area under Jordanian control...
Indeed, Shakespeare's themes remain as valid in the epoch of Henry K. as they were in that of Henry V. The vanished English world, like this one, was beset with crises. Scientists had just proved that the sun no longer orbited the earth; skepticism had been imported wholesale from Montaigne's France; religious wars had undermined faith...
...future there is at least one ideal film he has in mind. It would be called The Belle Epoch and concern "a very wealthy family at the turn of the century in France, a large family up to the first World War. It's the beginning of the mechanical age, and it's about the society at that time and its amazement at its own failure. The family ends the way animals become extinct: They become so perfected to their own environment that when their environment disappears, they have...
...core, Mercury seems to rotate much too slowly to produce such a dynamo effect. But scientists offer alternative explanations. Mercury's magnetic field may be created externally by bombardment of charged particles from the sun hitting the atmosphere-or it may be left over from an epoch when the spin was faster. The presence of an atmosphere is equally difficult to explain because the planet's gravity is too weak to prevent a gaseous envelope from escaping into space. But, says Project Scientist James A. Dunne, some gases could be continually trapped from the stream of solar particles...