Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must also decide what to make of Visconti's frequent use of chiaroscuro. Is there any further point, beyond mere decoration in all that flickering night light? Shadows shift and fade so often that at first I thought the print might be faulty. But no. Apparently Visconti wanted to "put Rembrandt on film." That is, he took a painterly technique and set it in motion. Intellectually this may sound fine, but it doesn't make much sense on the screen unless the director supports the tone of his narrative with it. In this case, he made me squint...
...1950s, rising Arab nationalism led to frequent border raids by Yemen and Saudi Arabia. The Yemenites indignantly claim the entire Aden region as South Yemen. In response, Britain decided to band the protectorate's pint-sized potentates into a federation. After some kicking and screaming, eleven of the 23 sheikdoms joined up. Next, the British moved to merge Aden Colony with the protectorate to offset the independence agitation. Chief agitator: the city's Trades Union Congress, led by a bumptious, Redlining young airline clerk named Abdullah Asnag, whose slogan runs, "One People, One Yemen, God Is Great...
...future, the retailing problem may grow. For if it succeeds in wooing younger drivers, who generally crave frequent, thoroughgoing model changes, AMC may be forced to choose between its new public and its resistance to extensive restyling. AMC hopes to stick with its basic '63 styling for at least three years. Says Cross: "We haven't opened Pandora's box." Nor has the company any hankering to stray outside the compact field. "The most rapidly expanding part of the auto market today is the compact segment," says President Abernethy. "It currently accounts for 38% of the market...
...huge business" which universities do with the government--involving more than a billion dollars for research and development a year--requires an annoying amount of administrative work. Pusey called "especially vexing" the frequent and formidable demands made on the time of valuable research professors to prepare applications for support, to administer the funds allocated, and to make elaborate reports on the uses to which the funds have been...
...Division began to shadow Dr. Sidney M. Fox, 41, a chemist who worked at the Pearl River, N.Y., plant where Lederle develops the ultrasecret cultures for its new drugs. The detectives observed that Fox regularly invented excuses to remain in the lab after working hours and that he made frequent visits to Biorganic Laboratories, an East Paterson, N.J., company run by Chemist Nathan Sharff. All this struck Cyanamid as highly suspicious, but the detectives found no concrete evidence that Fox was filching drug formulas...