Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editorial cleanliness for dramatic punch. Petulia's occasional messiness is much to Lester's credit: the film ends at least six times in its attempt to chronicle a relationship realistically, but just before its strange construction becomes irritating, the real last shot appears--a chilling icon justifying most previous excess. George C. Scott, never my favorite actor, turns in a magnificent performance, as does Shirley Knight as his estranged wife...
...Risk of Excess Success. Despite the emphasis on black studies and black pride, no anti-white hostility is discernible. By their own efforts, the students have rejected the lethargy and alienation inherent in their ghetto lives, and they take a positive view of the future. They plan to keep Freedom Annex improving and growing. Already, four dropouts from Eastern, encouraged by the Annex's freedom, have returned to classes and are doing well...
...Octet is one of Stravinsky's most austere pieces, but is nevertheless a masterful enquiry into wind dialogue. The work exhibits Stravinsky's polyphonic terseness and lucidity, and particularly his severe economy of expression in which not a single note or beat is gratuitous excess. The Octet is a collection of crystalline inflections reflecting jewel-like through the mists of Strauss' Suite. Stravinsky is the greatest master of the liberating freshness of technical discipline since Bach. His pellucid textures are never subjected to the spoilage of superfluity but rather to an intensely self-conscious merging of the intoxication of original...
...expressed the fear that the merged companies would draw traffic away from the Chicago & North Western and the Milwaukee Road. Late last year, the commission reversed itself after the northern lines promised to give valuable track rights to the Milwaukee and mollified labor by agreeing to eliminate 4,511 excess employees by attrition over several years rather than dismissal. The chief executives of the carriers gathered in Manhattan to sign the consolidation papers last May. But only hours before they were to complete the formalities that would have created the Burlington Northern, Chief Justice Earl Warren abruptly halted the merger...
...truck manufacturers will produce a record 1,803,000 trucks and Jeeplike vehicles. Understandably, they are delighted about the present - a year of sales in excess of $4 billion-and see an even brighter future ahead. Said Ford President Semon Knudsen at the American Trucking Associations' convention last week: "We expect the total truck market to pass a 2,000,000 annual rate in the early 1970s and to reach...