Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more attractive argument is the possible improvement in the U.S. balance of payments. Actually, while the Pentagon could trim a lot out of its budget (every division costs some $75 million a year), there would be no great saving to the gold flow, since West Germany is tied by a so-called "offset" agreement to spend some $650 million a year in 1962-64 on materiel purchases in the U.S. The guarantee to offset U.S. dollar
...swift flow of images turns to honey from this point on; although the scenes are even richer, too much sweetness at too slow a pace becomes cloying. Don Fabrizio (Burt Lancaster) decides that Tancredi (Alain Delon) should marry Angelica (Claudia Cardinale), the richly dowered daughter of the ambitious mayor, rather than his own shy daughter, Concetta. The last third of the film is spent at a ball for the couple. An excess of eating, drinking, and dancing causes lethargy for the guests and unfortunately for the viewer as well...
Entertainment will relieve the heavy flow of politics at the session. No admission fee is contemplated...
...second, for example, too slow for bounce and too fast for grace; the music just ambled along like an elephant. He also failed to provide variety in the orchestral dynamics to compensate for the restricted possibilities of the flute; most of the time, the notes did not seem to flow in any direction. Only in the fifth movement did the waters of dullness recede and a differentiated musical landscape rise. Thereafter the waters refluxed...
Rainfall in most of that region averages only about 5 in. per year, barely enough to support the dustiest desert vegetation. But the Nabataeans learned how to concentrate the rain, leading the water off bare plateaus and making it flow gently down narrow valleys so that it filled cisterns cut in the rock and sank into the fields enclosed in stone walls. Valleys that are now deserted except for wandering Bedouins, once supported strings of villages. The country has never been as thickly inhabited since...