Word: everyday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Modern Art in New York. There will be a 1-million-volume library, one of the few in Paris open to the general public, complete with language laboratories and film and tape-recording resources. A Center of Industrial Creation will offer information on everything from the design of everyday objects to the modern city as an archaeological site. Still incomplete is an Institute of Musical Acoustical Research and Coordination, to be directed by Pierre Boulez. There are rooftop gardens, a film center, child-care facilities and a restaurant. The center is also serving to attract new galleries and shops...
...Miscellaneous Part I the entry from Mather 438 came up with a rather caustic response to the question about the hits by The Buckinghams, charging "Name a Buckingham, I dare you--I double dare you." Meanwhile, grad student Robert Landsman insisted that the everyday housewife gave up "pills" for me. Pretty big sacrifice...
...Although the switch is voluntary, Congress passed a law in December 1975 that encourages all Government agencies to change to metrics over the next few years. Since liquor, food, drugs, the interstate highway system and weather forecasts are regulated by the Federal Government, few areas of everyday life will remain untouched by the conversion...
Broadcasting is perhaps the most potent everyday witness to the converging powers of technology. The most democratic of all forms of public communication, broadcasting converges people, drawing them into the same experience in ways never before possible. The great levelers, broadcast messages and images, go without discrimination into the homes of rich and poor, white and black, young and old. More than 99% of American households have at least one television set. If you own a set, no admission fee is required to enter TV land and to have a front seat at all its marvels. No questions are asked...
...sake of realism, refugees from Saigon were dressed in black pajamas, and a Philippine aborigine tribe was brought down from the mountains to portray Montagnards. As camera crews shot around them, they went about their everyday lives of working, eating and even giving birth. Since the Pentagon threw up its hands at the antiwar, antiArmy script, Coppola turned to the more amenable Philippine army, which provided helicopter pilots. The only trouble was that, although the Philippine pilots knew how to take off and land, they were baffled by the intricate maneuvers Coppola demanded. He handled that problem by hiring former...