Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time Johnson reached the crucial passage 35 minutes after his address began, many Americans had already switched off their television sets. Others had grown heavy-lidded. Still others slouched, fast asleep, before flickering tubes. Then, with the particular relish he derives from surprises, the President jolted his countrymen out of their Sunday somnolence with the biggest surprise of all. Said he, in a sentence that may already have earned its place among historic American quotations: "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President...
...reforms were moving so fast that at week's end the party felt obliged to sound a note of caution. Conscious of the apprehension of the Soviet Union and other Communist neighbors, the Central Committee passed a resolution warning of the dangers of two extremes. On the one hand, the resolution declared the party's firm intention of preventing a return to the era before Dubček's takeover; on the other, it cautioned the people against trying to go back to the days before Communism...
...description of the ordeal contains some of the best combat narrative to come out of Viet Nam. After a daylong fight, in which the 40-man patrol was whittled down by the North Vietnamese, Just found himself trapped in a vulnerable com mand post. It was filling up fast with wounded. Suddenly, the enemy began to lob grenades at them. Suddenly, Just was seized by the realization that there was no way to stop them...
Even compromised in order to placate audiences, Kubrick's handling of the visual relationship between time and space is more than impressive. He has discovered that slow movement (of space crafts, for example) is as impressive on a Cinerama screen as fast movement (the famous Cinerama roller-coaster approach), also that properly timed sequences of slow movement actually appear more real--sometimes even faster--than equally long long sequences of fast motion shots. No film in history achieves the degree of three-dimensional depth maintained consistently in 2001 (and climaxed rhapsodically in a shot of a pulsating stellar galaxy); Kubrick...
...asked the police to step back because we can work this out among ourselves. I thought my own people would give me a little respect." With that the deck was cleared and Brown finished the show. At the end of his song the lights went out and he split. Fast...