Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jesus, Copernicus, Luther, Diderot, Darwin, Marx and Freud, to name just a few, met considerable resistance, not to mention censorship, at their inception. Whether or not there proves to be any value in pornography's view, it is not the business of our courts, in principle, to regulate the flow of ideas--only to protect the individual's right to ignore those ideas. And pornography is an idea, a point of view like any other...
This is the third in the series of eight subscription presentations by The American Film Theater, and it is the first to be betrayed by staginess. All that Director Tony Richardson has done to give A Delicate Balance a cinematic flow is call upon the considerable talents of Cinematographer David Watkin. Having made that excellent choice, Richardson seems to have disappeared. Watkin uses a kind of embellished natural lighting. His uncluttered compositions can shock the eye with a shaft of light from a table lamp or lull it with a suggestion of the dark distances between night and morning...
Experiments and observations now support a three-level theory of memory. The lowest level is short-term memory, lasting no more than a few seconds; every moment of life, hundreds of sensory impressions flow into the human brain and are promptly forgotten. On the next level is medium-term memory, which lasts from a few minutes to a few hours, and enables man to remember something like a telephone number just long enough to dial it or to cram for an examination. At the highest level is long-term memory, which is sifted out of all the impressions and information...
...most critical outside influence on the economy was the Arab states' decision to cut off the flow of oil to the U.S. because of its support of Israel. That move transformed a difficult situation into an emergency. Even before the Arab action, Americans faced scarcities of fuel. If the ban were lifted tomorrow, the U.S. would have to struggle with energy shortages for years...
...economic management are no longer enough to keep the economy in good health. Heavy government spending and increases in the money supply that boost demand are more likely to tempt employers to bid up the wages of skilled workers than to hire the unskilled jobless. Cutting back the flow of money to the economy can produce a shallow recession, but as Americans learned in 1970, prices are likely to keep rising rapidly anyway...