Word: incidentals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In the sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey, a space-walking astronaut is separated from his ship and sent hurtling off to his death in space by an intelligent but deranged computer. Last week, in spite of Russian efforts to keep the incident quiet, Western sources reported that a...
It was a famous victory, the Carter Administration claimed last week. In point of fact, however, the price-setting action taken by Bethlehem Steel Corp., while encouraging, fell a good deal short of winning the Battle of Waterloo against inflation. Indeed, the very fact that the Administration singled out the...
In describing the "Japaneseness" of common life, the artists (most of whose names have perished) devised a kind of visual equivalent to the long social descriptions in Victorian novels. What the genre screens lack in iconic profundity, they make up for in their beguiling chatter of incident and their unfailing...
The most flagrant recent example of harassment occurred at Beit Jala (pop. 8,200) two months ago, during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon:* some 50 Israeli troops surrounded a school, ordered the students to close the windows, and then lobbed canisters of CS antiriot gas into the classrooms. Some students...
Stanford Law Professor John Kaplan suspects that they might. "Most judges have to think about being re-elected," he said, "and they do recognize the crucial role of the local press in that process." On the other hand, there have been at least ten newsroom invasions by police since the...