Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more kinetic performance. He plays a magazine writer named Bill Denny, separated from his wife, living out a drifting fantasy of risk and destruction. He hooks up with Gould at a Vegas poker parlor, and the two of them get their small winnings beaten out of them in a fast parking-lot brawl. From then on they become accomplices in misfortune. Gould inhabits some sort of foggy half-world of the hard scuffle, keeping company with a couple of soft-core hookers who serve beer and Fruit Loops for breakfast. Segal likes the style, likes the dead-end quality...
...that was moving too fast for Lee N. Hames, safety-education director of the American Medical Association. In an editorial in the current Journal of the American Medical Association, Hames doubts that the reduced speed limit deserved quite so much credit, arguing that the energy shortage had reduced the number of miles driven. Besides, said Hames, "most crashes occur at speeds of less than 55 m.p.h. anyway...
...cope with Ford's biggest problem: inflation. Despite past battles with party conservatives, he is not likely to offend many people today. He has made at least a token peace with the right. Moreover, he is no longer the political threat he used to be. Age is fast removing him from contention; Ford plans to run for the presidency in 1976, and Rockefeller will be 72 in 1980. In the meantime, Ford has ample leisure to groom a successor and eventually install him as Vice President if Rockefeller moves on to a Cabinet post. Rockefeller, on the other hand...
...many modern problems (e.g., crowded parks) "are the side effects of success, not the fruit of failure," Wallenberg suggests that they are not really problems at all. He dismisses critics of the food and decor at McDonald's, for example, with Ihe assertion that "the function of the fast-food business ... is quite simple: Women's Liberation." That is, it frees Mom from shopping, cooking and washing up, so don't complain. In the same vein, "suburban sprawl is a pejorative phrase that describes perhaps the most comfortable mass residential living conditions in history...
...bound to be controversial. For example, it does not even consider sabotage as a cause of nuclear accidents, a possibility that especially troubles Ralph Nader. Nor does it investigate the additional risk of accident involved in the new generation of gas-cooled reactors or the next generation of fast-breeder reactors. In addition, anti-nuclear critics like the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Mass., vow to scrutinize WASH-1400 for any oversimplification, any error in calculation or method that might discredit the work...