Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sharp editing and a mobile, zooming camera carry the fast pace of changing personal and political relationships. This pace is perhaps a bit hectic, especially at the beginning: Bellochio cuts from one liaison to another without letting us figure out ideological or amatory identities. But these are minor confusions that only tumble forward to hit us occasionally, when the rest of the film slows down...
McCarthy appeared to be pulling up fast during the last four days of the campaign after a massive television and radio barrage and his now-typical student canvassing operation. Among black voters, Kennedy scored an impressive 90 per cent in by far the heaviest primary turnout of voters in black areas. Black voters, who comprise about 20 per cent of Indiana voters, live primarily in Indianapolis and Gary...
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 5--The Democratic primary campaign in the Hoosier State is fast becoming a stop-Kennedy effort...
Almost Out. Until last week, McDonnell Douglas was almost out of the running. Last February, the newly merged company got off to a fast start with an order from American Airlines of 50 subsonic DC-10s capable of carrying up to 343 passengers. But after that, competing Lockheed Aircraft got all the business with its L-1011. Lockheed signed up TWA, Eastern, Delta, Northeast, and a British airplane sales company for a total of 172 planes. McDonnell Douglas, which will not break even until it sells around 100 airbuses, grimly admitted that unless other orders came in, the program would...
...this fast and fickle culture, British Critic Cyril Connolly once declared, it is ambition enough for any author to set out to write a book that will last ten years. "And of how many books," he asked, "is that true today?" One notable example is this artful, bracing group of stories, Grace Paley's first and, so far, only book. Little noticed when it was published in 1959, it has since won enough readers and impressed enough critics to justify a new edition even before its first decade...