Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...creation. Says Harvey Tananbaum, an X-ray astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory: "That first instant of creation is not relevant as long as we do not have the laws to begin to understand it. It is a question for philosophers and religionists, not for scientists." Adds Geoffrey Burbidge, director of Kitt Peak National Observatory: "Principles and concepts cannot be measured. A question like 'Who imposed the order?' is metaphysical." Still, virtually everyone -both scientists and laymen-is taken by the sheer unthinkable opacity of the creation and what preceded it. Says Jastrow: "The question of what...
...sorry, I don't believe a man can fly--at least not in the fractured, badly edited take-offs, where the colors stink of chemicals and you can tell that any life has been squeezed out in special effects laboratories. Director Richard Donner and the late cameraman Geoffrey Unswerth provide some striking compositions (although the camerawork is far too heavy on rising and dipping crane shots), but Donner puts them together ineptly--whole sequences seem chopped up and hurried, and the images don't flow into each other. Superman is 100% studio hype; is the public so gullible that...
What keeps such cases droning on is that the lawyers on both sides, trained in caution to begin with, "run an enormous risk by not touching every base," says Yale Law School Professor Geoffrey Hazard. "Look at IBM. If the Government wins, it'll be like dismantling a political state." With the stakes high and their meters running, lawyers are in no rush to judgment, he explains. "Many antitrust counsel make a professional specialty out of procedural maneuver," states a draft of the final report of the National Commission for the Review of Antitrust Laws and Procedures. "Many others...
...ghosts of feuds and famines, the clouds fly low, the trees sag under the incessant rain, and the very air seems charged and weighed down with a sense of grievance." An Alphabet of Literary Prejudice includes a list of names from the London phone book (among the more notable: Geoffrey Gush, Dr. Fredoon Famrose and Mr. Halfhead...
...already on the scene, and central to the play, meet at the house of Geoffrey Carson (David Langton), a mine owner. Dick Wagner (John Thaw) is a gruff yet engaging Australian. He is soon scooped by Jacob Milne (Peter Machin), an idealistic cub reporter who has interviewed the inaccessible rebel leader...