Word: limitlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over a force of 50,000 Vietnamese irregulars in 80-odd bases, mostly tiny outposts along the Laotian and Cambodian borders. They run the most economic and perhaps the most unusual operation in the war, carried out on an annual budget of just over $100 million and a seemingly limitless supply of gall and resourcefulness...
...decision last week, the Supreme Court disagreed and upheld the congressional amendment by comparing the burning of draft cards to the destruction of tax records, also required to be kept by law. "We cannot accept the view," observed Chief Justice Warren, "that an apparently limitless variety of conduct can be labeled 'speech...
This year Nixdorf expects to clear $3,000,000. As for the future, the market appears almost limitless. In West Germany alone, Nixdorf estimates that another 100,000 small computers can be sold. Outside Germany, the market is even greater, and Nixdorf is gearing for it. One reason the company acquired Wanderer was to get its export network; in addition, Nixdorf will open its own sales offices this year in Switzerland, Italy and France. Business is so good, in fact, that the company might even finally put a distinguishing name plate on the door of its yellow-brick Paderborn office...
...itself, the ambiguous ending is at once appropriate and wrong. It guarantees that the film will arouse controversy, but it leaves doubt that the film makers themselves knew precisely what they were flying at. Still, no film to date has come remotely near Odyssey's depiction of the limitless beauty and terror of outer space. In this 2-hr. 40-min. movie, only 47 minutes are taken up with dialogue. The rest of the time is occupied with demanding, brilliant material for the eye and brain. Thus, though it may fail as drama, the movie succeeds as visual...
Despite his limitless Cockney verve and 2,000,000-candlepower smiles, Tommy Steele's range is small, and the movie's relentless series of overproduction numbers serve to reveal his limits. Of the cast of thousands, only Cyril Ritchard as a pauperized playwright and Grover Dale as Kipps's clogging boyhood colleague come off well, largely because their appearances are confined to a few key scenes...