Word: foreshortenings
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...physical dangers of sexual harassment and sexually transmitted diseases--and, for those who start menstruating early as well, pregnancy--are only the most obvious fallout of premature development. Academic pressure, drugs and alcohol in the schools, peer pressure and sexually explicit media are all conspiring to foreshorten childhood, with consequences that are still not well understood. "One of the big shocks during the whole Clinton debacle," says William Damon, director of Stanford's Center on Adolescence, "was that people were trying to filter out phrases like 'oral sex,' when in fact there were no eight-year-olds who didn...
...requirements of office foreshorten the opportunities for learning, argues Kissinger, "Presidents learn how to get on the nightly news to influence people and how to make decisions. But it is a myth that the presidency ennobles a person, that he can learn something mystical once he is in office. He cannot learn the substance on the job. If a President arrives an empty person, he leaves...
Pragmatically, we all have to pay our bills--including the household accounts. A community of purpose and good-will can save time which in itself costa money. Money cannot buy efficiency and achievement, per se. Can we foreshorten the meeting structures; can we extricate ourselves from the slag heap of prejudice, arrogance and indifference? Is there room for innovative and imaginative planning? Can we count on "the inner-directed man" to bail us out--granted his qualification for the job? The "limbo" of merger might find part of its answer when we see all students on their own merits...
...other scientific data accumulated in three weeks aloft. Typically, Russian space officials made no prior announcement of the flight's impending end. On the contrary, there had been hints all along that the cosmonauts might stay in orbit as long as a month. If there were reasons to foreshorten the mission, however, they were apparently not medical. Only a few days before, Soviet doctors had reported that except for slight fatigue, the trio were in exceptionally good health. Thus, when disaster struck, it was totally unexpected. "None of us had doubted the successful outcome of the venture," said...
...that people would just have to see it." Kurosawa's artistry is in the lapidary care that he gives to every aspect of his films. He holds scenes, without cutting, for minutes on end, forcing the eye to choose its own emphasis. His use of telephoto lenses to foreshorten perspective is so expert that it is often unnoticeable...