Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passed his university entrance exams, but the next term was not scheduled to start for another nine months. Deciding that he did not have that much time to waste, Richard went home to Nairobi. He still does not hold an academic degree and has never returned to a campus?except as a speaker...
...nausea. The slightest disturbance?the closing of a door, a sudden aroma, the switching on of a light?can be devastating. As Dr. John B. Brainard explains, "The ache becomes an intolerable, overwhelming force, driving you to bed, away from people, away from the world, away from everything except the hideous pain inside your head...
...lights were then aimed at the camera lens, creating the optical effect known as lens flare. Says he: "We used that technique in order to have those UFO objects pass over, through or around whatever the human action was in the scene. You never really distinctly see anything except in a few very brief cuts...
...Mama were the assignment of Italian Designer Carlo Rambaldi, the man who made King Kong in the 1976 film. "The idea was that they will be perhaps 100,000 years ahead of us in the process of evolution," he explains. "They don't use their arms any more except to push buttons, but they do use their minds much more than we do. So the arms are small, but the head is very large. In their own world they probably communicate with fellow creatures by mental telepathy, so ears are very tiny. They don't need larger ears...
...everyone, that is, except American Motors?as usual. Alone among the four U.S. automakers, it suffered a sales decline, of a sharp 28.6%. That cut its long-sliding share of the U.S. market (excluding imports) from an already poor 2.9% last year to a nearly invisible 1.9% during the October period (its high was 6.4% in 1963). It was an inauspicious week for a new driver to take over. Nonetheless, Chairman Roy D. Chapin Jr., the man most closely associated with AMC's long struggle for survival, handed over the chief executive's job to President Gerald C. Meyers. Chapin...