Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broadcasts. Such prophets as RCA's David Sarnoff foresee the day when it will be possible to reach every home in every country by direct broadcast from a satellite. Not everyone, of course, can be expected to view this possibility with enthusiasm. The Russians would not like the idea of every dacha in the Ukraine receiving broadcasts from New York, nor would the U.S. wish to hear instant Communist propaganda broadcasts on Channel...
...code was designed in 1930 to keep actors and actresses out of bed-on the screen. It seemed like a good idea at the time, for movies were as sex-conscious as the films coming out of Sweden today. But the production code launched an era of hypocritical leer; moviemakers often did their vulgar and ingenious best to be as provocative as possible, without violating the code's letter...
...very idea is a product of the most modern medicine, which has made possible the detection and treatment of countless diseases before they display so much as a single symptom. The major problem is to get the symptomless patient to let doctors run the neces sary tests...
...zeal by Mrs. Kennedy, was to create a lively, variegated commercial district of small shops, restaurants, and book stores that would attract and hold the local population of students, intellectuals and young professionals; one will have to wait for I.M. Pei's final masterplan to see how much this idea has survived...
Under a narrow ceiling and then suddenly into the auditorium. But Midas has been there first. The boxes, the ceiling, the proscenium arch, the curtain, and the fifth violinist's teeth are gold. So is a sculpture above the stage that looks like a cubist's idea of a squatting giraffe. In the old Met, the gold was dark, worked and decorated; here it is plain and so bright it hurts the eyes. Little diamond mustaches are affixed to the boxes. And there are more star-shaped chandeliers. Clearly, someone got up one morning out of his Procrustean bed with...