Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Absent too, however, was the exhilaration and fervor of engaging, competitive, intercollegiate basketball. Although this "low-profile" program may well have been constructive and rewarding to the players themselves, it was hardly meaningful to the school or the community, and it was exciting to absolutely no one. Harvard was simply not attracting those amply qualified students who were also blue-chippers on the basketball court. Nor was it attempting...
...underwater pipeline to shoreline facilities. Supertankers simply tie up to the buoy and pump oil into the pipeline while swinging with the tides and currents. Trouble is, oil is often spilled in the process and eventually washes ashore. For this reason the Japanese, with their new-found ecological fervor, are now shifting to an alternative: "sea islands...
...success, a group of men who claim to be the "cream of the crop" of San Francisco bachelors have banded together to attract good-looking lunch dates. They call their organization the Tuesday Downtown Operators and Observers, and they pursue their goals and girls with such single-minded fervor that the club has become something of a city institution...
...bared until they look like a couple of upended harmonicas-he seems less gifted in music than m hog calling. Like A Face in the Crowd, Payday tries hard to be about the spiritual bankruptcy of American life, but Director Daryl Duke emulates only the hysteria, not the theatrical fervor, of the 1957 Kazan film. The wretched photography uses a style known as "television light," meaning that the frame is burned with bright light so that everything will show up clearly on the home screen. In a theater, where the image is much larger, such a misconceived technique makes...
...time. Not only do the tenants stalk her and spook her, but her passion for a rather creepy photographer risks more than simple heartbreak. The movie is rather delirious camp, wonderfully photographed by Andrew Davis and directed by Paul Bartel with the fervor of a carny barker at a freak show...