Word: human
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...needs movies on a long-distance passenger train? The odyssey provides enough walk-around human drama to fuel a TV series. (It might be called The Off-Broadway Limited.) A young woman, in tears after midnight, confesses that she is going home to Louisiana after a tragic love affair. A black businessman muses somberly on the humiliations that clouded his childhood. A retired railroad executive recounts the great train trips he has made around the world. An elderly waiter talks of the days when he and the rest of the dining-car crew on some routes had to sleep...
During 14 hours of private talks, both sides avoided dwelling on the issues that sharply divide them, chiefly the status of Taiwan and Jimmy Carter's views on human rights. Instead, they concentrated on the strategic importance of their own relationship. Said Brzezinski: "I emphasized that our approach to China reflects a long-term view of how we wish to see the world unfold. A strong China is in our best national interests...
...life-for the attainment of the one goal denied her father and a way of bringing honor to her husband, who has been attacked so often in the past. That would only be a guess, of course. One sign of good breeding, in a horse or a human, is self-control, and Patrice Jacobs Wolfson controls emotions as carefully as Stevie Cauthen controls her horse. She will say just this: "Aside from having good health, my husband and I want only to win the Triple Crown...
...relearn to see, and it's terrific." Viewers of his panoramas have to relearn to see as well. In the Cirkut panorama there is no vanishing point, and each shot has a slightly skewed perspective different from what is normally seen by the human eye. The result, with some horizontal straight lines appearing curved, and some curved lines straight, is slightly disorienting...
...Human Factor, Greene...