Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that later. Flynt is a burly red-haired man who looks more like a truck-driver than the publisher of the third largest men's magazine. (Last year that ordinal number meant over twenty million dollars in profit.) Hustler, in fact, celebrates the myth of the hard-drivin' fast-cussin' mean-fisted truckdrivers. They are the last American heroes, a lone breed of tough guys blazing down the pike at a speed that would turn a "pansyass" as white as his collar. Flynt talks slowly, firmly, and with a touch of impatience as if he were explaining a simple concept...
...spurning the aristocratic connotations of the original, later changed his name to Degas) sought out his revered mentor. He asked Ingres what he should do to become a great painter, as if such advice could be capsulized into a brief rejoinder. But Ingres, never at a loss for a fast and memorable answer to bottomless questions like this, told Degas simply: "Draw lines, young man, many lines, from memory or from nature; it is in this way that you will become a good artist...
...they also--particularly the dancers and the bathers--gave him leeway to play fast and loose with neo-classical conservatism. He tested the capacity of elegant design to withstand challenging poses. With the dancers, Degas takes on very difficult ballet postures and flirts wtih disequilibrium. With the bathers--and some of the horses--he plays the voyeur, catching his subjects in ungainly and at times vulgar contortions. Yet throughout his eye for "arabesque" (a term borrowed from dance, meaning "overall pattern of line") prevails, and his statuettes withstand his often perverse challenges. It is as if Degas wanted to tease...
...coal, and 3) de-emphasis of nuclear power. Both Carter and Schlesinger (a former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, among his other credits) agree that nuclear power is too expensive and too vulnerable on the safety issue. In his budget, Carter has cut $200 million from the fast-breeder reactor program. One reason: such reactors produce plutonium, which can be used by any nation -friend or foe-to make atomic bombs...
Without more "liquid gold," Arizonans fear that they will not be able to sustain either their $1.2 billion-a-year agricultural output or their fast-growing population. In the past five years, the number of state residents has risen by almost half a million, to 2,270,000-the biggest percentage increase in the nation. This year alone, the population could jump another 5% as more and more Easterners settle in the state-fleeing the harshest winter they have ever known for the bounteous life of the Sunbelt...