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...burning fuel that is relatively scarce in the U.S.; in many foreign countries it gushes out of oilfields in great volume, but is burned off because there is no local market for it. Granted, it cannot be piped across the oceans, but why not liquefy it to one six-hundredth of its normal volume and haul it to the U.S. aboard ship...
...Martin Buber was ceaselessly driving throughout all his richly varied life and was never self-satisfied or complacement," Walter A. Kaufmann, professor of philosophy at Princeton University said yesterday in his keynote address at a symposium held in honor of Buber's hundredth birthday...
POMME, THE HEROINE of Claude Goretta's The Lacemaker, has a face you might pass a hundred times without noticing, only to discover on the hundredth-and-first passing that it is indeed beautiful. Simple in feature and freckled, the face must be studied carefully before you begin to discern a hesitant glimmer in the eye and a warmth in the smile. You could call it childlike, but there is a certain melancholy under the surface...
Tiny Samples. Gove believes the direct measurement system, which requires as little as one-hundredth of the material needed for current dating tests, will eventually win wide acceptance. He and his colleagues have accurately determined some test samples to be 70,000 years old. With more work, they believe, they can push radiocarbon dating of tiny samples back to 100,000 years...
...lines like an overgrown marionette, Bue alternates between timidity and sarcasm. Occasionally he introduces a British accent for variety. Harper's Todd is an improvement, although his lumberjack appearance detracts from the credibility of his role as a Don Juan. Many of his facial gestures grate after the hundredth repetition but he still performs convincingly as the hard-drinking stud. Genovese's constant head-tossing disturbs her acting, as does her whining intonation. Yet Roffner rescues much of the dialogue with her intuitive feel for timing, breaking easily through her stereotypical role as the professional sculptor/amateur psychiatrist...