Word: ets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trois Visages de Liege (1961), ending the first half, was played on Ampex and Sony tape decks, McIntosh amplifiers, and six large speaker enclosures along the walls. The first Visage, "L'air et l'eau," was dull, using everyday electronic sounds to no new effects. It sounded distressingly like the background music to either an aspirin commercial or a spaceranger episode. "Voix de la Ville" and "Forges," on the other hand, were fresh, and full of exciting ideas, unusual sounds creating a wide range of mental images: massive steam engines running wild, fiery boilers bursting at the seams; or perhaps...
...pass the lagging U.S. merchant marine in tonnage in the early 1970s. Its high-seas fishing fleet is the world's largest and most modern; many of its 4,000 craft fish for vital information along foreign coasts as well as for the creatures of the sea. The Sovi et Union also has the largest oceanographic fleet, whose 200 ships plumb the earth's waters for militarily valuable data on depths, currents, bottom topography and other information of interest to its ships and submarines. Says Admiral John McCain Jr., commander in chief of U.S. naval forces in Eu rope...
Visually, the Burton Faustus is a darkling carnival of skeletons, candles, caves and necromancy, tricked out with such cinematic hocus-pocus as action shots montaged into a skull's eye sock et and heartbeats lub-dubbed onto the sound track. There is even a bit of bor rowing here too: a film clip of the magnificent charge of the French knights at Agincourt from Olivier's Henry V inexplicably turns up, and it is easily the best thing in the movie...
...hostility is compounded, however, by the Peace Corps' own failing in program planning, a weakness correctly noted by Cowan et al. Too often the organization has sponsored projects that were neither needed nor desired by foreign governments, and it continues to rely on an amateurish approach to the analysis of local needs, program planning and resource allocation. These are faults which the Peace Corps shares with many host governments, and remedies must come from both parties...
...coined the phrase later attributed to the legendary Algoma prospector Old Sam Martin: "Any man who sez he's been et by a wolf is a liar...