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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kris Johnson, 23, an electronics technician in Redmond, Wash., is working only four days a week now, and his income has dropped 15%. He and his wife have given up moviegoing in favor of getting together with friends for beer and popcorn, and the Johnsons are growing a vegetable garden to cut food bills. Johnson gave his wife a choice of giving up either bowling or driving to reduce expenses; she chose to continue bowling, so last week he sold the family's 1966 Galaxie, keeping a 1962 Buick. "I think this is the time to liquidate whatever...
...water from the ocean depths sometimes churns up to the surface. Laden with nutrients from decomposed sea life that has settled to the ocean deeps, these rising currents possess extraordinary fertilizing power. Once they reach the upper level of the ocean, where sunlight penetrates, they turn it into a garden of phyto-plankton-the tiny floating plants that are the bottom link in the sea's food chain. Actually the "upwelling" occurs only in a few areas like the extremely rich fishery off Peru. Much of the rest of the ocean is what one scientist recently called a "biological...
...attempt failed. Fortunately, the Bibliotheque Nationale owned Berlioz's manuscripts. British Musicologist Hugh MacDonald began the immense job of deciphering them and in 1969, the German firm of Barenreiter was able to publish the full score. The first complete performance in French-with Conductor Davis at Covent Garden in September 1969-made the Philips recording economically feasible by saving expensive rehearsal time...
...claims serves 27 purposes, from measuring the gap between electrodes on a spark plug to stripping wire and turning regular and Phillips screws. Not to be outdone, G.M. suggests that, with its illustrated and simplified manual, the Vega owner will need only a few tools: wrench, screwdriver, coat hanger, garden hose and-to replace transmission and rear-axle fluids-a turkey baster...
...deeper level no difference exists between his two passions. The brilliant juxtaposition of the sad love story to the creation of the monster demonstrates how they feed off each other in the doctor's mind. He is pursuing twin love affairs. One is the conventional, mannered, self-deceiving garden variety and the other is the violent subconscious variety. Dr. Frankenstein gives his deepest unconscious fear substance by creating the monster. What kind of monster would return at the time of his maker's marriage and attempt to claim him for his own? In many ways, the monster acts...