Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JIMMY is a $900,000 anachronism, a Hollywood notion (courtesy of Jack L. Warner) of what a Broadway musical is like, drearily familiar from countless Hollywood films of Broadway musicals. It takes consummate ineptitude to make Jimmy Walker dull and to make his mistress, Betty Compton, even duller...
Does this description fit some future vehicle that is still beyond man's technological grasp? It does not. Last week twelve shiny versions of this ideal car were lined up for public inspection at the first International Electric Vehicle Symposium in Phoenix, Ariz. Some of the models were familiar Volkswagens and Renaults, converted to run on battery power. Others were brand new and strange-looking. General Electric unveiled its squat, three-door "Delta," which looks like a stylized descendant of the Jeep. Not to be outdone, Westinghouse showed off a sleek "Lotus Europa" sports car. Ford had a streamlined...
...after a series of questions about specific cases, where-the students claimed-workers with long experience were made helpers, the administrators said they were not familiar with details of each case. "Where's the foreman?" students asked. "Why isn't he here...
...dialogue. The shrink should be dosed with adrenaline; Torn plays him as if he were shot with Novocain. Sally Kirkland, the Susan B. Anthony of the new nudity, mercilessly displays a Vogueish figure that looks more erotic dressed than undressed. Viveca Lindfors, like her fellow supporting players, adopts the familiar rock musicians' motto: Loud is Good...
Bowles and MacEwan also tell us that the "human costs of rapid economic growth... the fracture of a community, for example-are seldom considered." Few Western economists need to be told of the "human costs of rapid economic growth," though more familiar examples are urban congestion and pollution, and many will join in regretting that such costs are not given more weight in actual development programs...