Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since July, salesmen for a firm owned by France's Atomic Energy Commission have been busily signing up foreign power companies for the "reprocessing" of their nuclear wastes by still-to-be-built French facilities. Essentially, these wastes are used-up nuclear fuel in the form of long, needle-like rods encased in zircaloy metal sheaths. Once these rods have been used in a conventional reactor, the utilities normally keep them in large storage tanks that resemble swimming pools. But in reprocessing, the spent fuel is removed from the sheaths; usable quantities of plutonium and uranium are then separated...
...province, which just opened at the Brooklyn Museum and will travel to San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston throughout 1978, is not only interesting but instructive. These bright-colored, Volk-ish scenes of collective labor, with their clear and pretty patterns, are, in fact, like posters a prime form of political instruction in China. As the catalogue remarks, they exemplify "the abolition of the distinction between manual workers and brain workers." How complete this erasure has been the show makes all too clear...
Further, Miller has advocated some ideas that Burns never would countenance. In a signed article in Business Week in 1974, he came out for a form of credit allocation: mandatory higher interest rates on, and higher bank reserves behind, loans for low-priority purposes; lower rates on, and smaller reserves behind, high-priority loans, such as those to finance housing or small business. Conditions, of course, were different then, and Miller was not talking last week about whether he feels the same way now. He interrupted a Bahamas vacation to accept Carter's selection, made some remarks about...
Such verbal snapshots form the documentation for Croce's broader, harder judgments, particularly on fads that have parasitically grown with the popularity of ballet. "Reviewing should function like a Food and Drug Administration," she notes, "even if that function is largely futile." What she calls "pop ballet" is a particular target: "Whole repertories (the Stuttgart Ballet) or parts of repertories (the Jeffrey, the Ailey) devoted to slick approximations of the higher article." In an essay called "Selling It," she has very harsh words for the American Ballet Theater, which she accuses of merchandising stars in shoddy productions while neglecting...
...Bernal, the men's coach, and Stephanie Walsh, the women's head coach, teamed up with their assistants, Steve Berizzi and Paula Newman, to form the nucleus of a Harvard staff that anchored the operations of the two-day event for which NBC provided national television coverage...