Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...virtues-notably as a study of that curious and enduring institution, the show-biz entourage. Like most stars, Essendine cannot live with the fatuities of his followers. Nor can he be without their faithful responses to every shift in pressure registered by his absurdly delicate inner barometer. For their part, his manager, his producer, his ex-wife and the women who will not be denied his bed are ever willing to allow him to quell their exasperation with a dollop of charm, always measured out at precisely the moment it is required...
...setting for this crime wave is not an inner-city blackboard jungle but suburban Evanston Township High School on Chicago's elm-shaded, affluent North Shore. For years the high school has been known as one of the best in the nation, and it still earns that reputation. The current senior class has nine Merit Scholars, the largest number in the school's 92-year history. Evanston's innovative curriculum offers 260 courses and programs; the campus includes a planetarium and television studio...
...long and 220 yds. in diameter) would support 10,000 people; they would contain an atmosphere like earth's, water, farm land and a variety of flora and fauna. The cylinders would rotate slowly, thus simulating gravity and holding people, buildings and soil "down" on the inner surfaces. For power, the space colonizers would rely on ever-present sunlight, captured by large external mirrors that could be controlled to create the effect of night and day and even of seasonal change...
...hope, for the purpose of making some broader statement about why such behavior is so typical of men and women in society. But his adherence to a visual world where details reign supreme and where events occur without apparent consequences not only divests Paul and Adriana of any real inner complexity; it also undercuts whatever representativeness they might have by fragmentating their relations with society into symbols of isolation and solitude. Paul's eventual defeat in the election is merely an incidental event, denuded of any comment on his personal life, which, by the films end, has little reference...
...aims at promoting neighborhood self-sufficiency by teaching inner-city people how to raise organically grown vegetables. Another project involves construction of solar-powered hot-water heaters on apartment roofs. A third seeks to increase food supplies by teaching people to raise fish at home. "It's protein," says Hess, pointing to a tank full of tiny rainbow trout. "You can trade them or sell them...