Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transcends the everyday. Without distorting reality it catapults it into a higher plane of sensation. Certain sublime moments in life can simulate the best art (or vice-versa). And certainly a divine fusing of sex and art, like. Mollie Brown's solliloquoy, raises both to an incredibly exciting level...
...Curious is the latest in the succession of cruel teasers. Its redeeming social content is a mindless and disjointed commentary on the failures of the welfare state and the resolute conservatism of most people you happen to meet on the street. The level of social probing reminds me of the fist stages of adolescent alienation in suburbia...
Sealed Tunnel. After probing for three months, the diggers struck a rectangular masonry shaft that began at the city level of Ahab's time (about 850 B.C.) and dropped past the debris of 13 older cities. As Yadin was removing rubble near the bottom of the shaft, "a rush of hot air hit me in the face." He had uncovered a 12-ft.-high tunnel that had been sealed since Biblical times. At its other end, 100 ft. away, Yadin saw water sparkling in the torchlights. Instead of depending on springs, Ahab's engineers had dug deep...
...reserves and sell dollars to maintain the official price of their own currencies. Despite all this, in stunning defiance of the world's financial experts, West Germany's political leaders at week's end ruled out any upward revaluation of the mark from its present official level of 25⅓?. "The decision," insisted Government Spokesman Conrad Ahlers, "is final, unequivocal and for eternity. The government now expects and hopes that the speculation over the mark will...
...Angeles, one of the most auto-clogged cities in the world, is trying a new solution for its traffic trauma: a portable parking lot. The product of a local firm called Portable Parking Structures, Inc., the lot is actually a three-level open garage that looks as if it were built with an oversize Erector set. The structure is bolted together from steel beams and prefab concrete slabs. It can be assembled quickly on temporarily unused downtown lots and dismantled within one week when the land must be vacated to make way for a new building...