Word: jam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Weekend, French Film Maker Jean-Luc Godard foresees the end of the world as an immense traffic jam. Stanley Kubrick sees the men of 2001 as murder victims of a machine they have made more clever than themselves...
...switch from Wednesday closings, in effect since June 12, to shorter hours. Five-day-a-week trading, with closings at 2 p.m. instead of 3:30 in New York, will resume this week. Some brokers share the SEC's fears that the most severe effects of the paperwork jam are yet to be felt. Industry leaders, however, insist that the new system will reduce operational troubles faster than...
Monstrous Metamorphosis. In Weekend, Jean-Luc Godard saw the end of the world as a vast traffic jam. Bergman's concept is less visual-and more chilling. His people never see history; like radiation, it destroys them without touching them. Jan and Eva become aliens in their own marriage. They rage against their cage and at each other. As Samuel Beckett puts it, "The mortal microcosm cannot forgive the relative immortality of the macrocosm. The whiskey bears a grudge against the decanter." Half from fear, half from the desire to have the child Jan cannot give her, Eva sleeps...
Patient Fiddlers. Unfortunately for Kremlin censors, it is more difficult-and sometimes even more expensive-to jam programs selectively than it is to send them. Western broadcasters get their programs through either by taking advantage of Soviet technical lapses or by employing classified tricks of their own. And once through the barriers, they have an eager and well-equipped audience. Short-wave transmitters are much more common in the Soviet Union than in other nations because the vast size of the nation makes short-wave transmission the most practical way to reach the entire country. Perhaps as many...
While police were pushing the crowd against the hotel front, another body of police in a side street, alerted by a radio call of "policeman in trouble," charged into the flank of the already jam-packed crowd, ultimately forcing a score of people through a plate-glass window...