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PERHAPS THE PROBLEMS with Joys of a Woman are endemic to soft-core pornography. Anything that isn't explicitly erotic seems superficial and inane, and even those scenes that are somewhat more risque than those available on prime-time television lose their novelty by the end of the first half-hour. Where Emmanuelle was ridiculous in its attempts to sandwich social analysis in between Erotica, Emmanuelle II abandons the pretense entirely, and is notable for nothing except its pretty photography and none-too-kinky...
Many in television are ex-newspapermen and, being aware that an entire half-hour newscast would not fill even one newspaper page, are apologetic for the superficiality and skimpiness of what they do. They hope to see network news shows extended to a full hour. Perhaps they should relax a little: in four minutes a night, they are not going to make anyone knowledgeable in Keynesian economics. All forms of journalism have their own point of satiety. Richard Salant, president of CBS News, says that Cronkite "has often said, but never meant" that he longs to end a broadcast...
...half-hour deadline passed without incident and police allowed students to re-enter the House after a search was concluded...
Church hoped to win attention with a half-hour speech over national TV last week. But he could only wangle five minutes of network time, just before the 11 p.m. newscasts. It was an odd time in an odd week-one of the few throughout the spring without one or more primaries. With voters taking time out from the campaign onslaught, Church's pivotal speech went all but unnoticed...
...company has also developed techniques to decrease costly "bounce" dives-twelve hours of on-deck decompression for every half-hour on the ocean floor. Descending in a pressurized diving bell, an Oceaneering diver can work underwater shifts of four hours or more with only four days off out of every 15 for decompression. Another innovation: an experimental suit that encases a diver in normal atmospheric pressure at great depths, thus eliminating the need for decompression altogether...