Word: longly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many students fail the exams at all? A root cause is one that Law 815 ignores: overcrowding. Professors often lecture to classes of 1,500 students. Only 10% of Athens University's 45,000 students are housed in dorms. In addition, labs are ill-equipped, textbooks long outdated, libraries usually closed. Says Student Union President Christos Papoutsis about Law 815: "It's like trying to construct a building from the second floor up, having forgotten to put in the foundations and the first floor...
...former craft are absolutely basic: one stalwart captain, one joky copilot, one overdedicated scientist, one slightly shifty civilian and one pretty lady whose function is to be placed in jeopardy. The sole proprietor of the ship they run into is Maximilian Schell, a great long-lost scientist whose ego trips are as monumental as his space voyages and who is, indeed, quite round the bend. His crew are all robots, though some of them were human before he started doing these terrible things to them. Of course, he cannot afford to let his visitors return to earth with news...
...This long sequence is a blend of smartly staged action and mechanical and photographic effects as spectacular as anyone has achieved. It simply blows one away. The trip into the black hole that follows owes too much to 2001, but there are some amusing visual references to Fantasia, which partly compensate. It is good to see the Disney craftsmen doing what they do best on such a grand and risky scale. If one has time for only one space opera this season, this is the one to choose. - Richard Schickel
...Sotheby's photographic expert. Almost any object from the once scorned 19th century now seems as precious as Suez Canal Co. stock was in its heyday. Twenty years ago, a New York dealer reminisces, "people were giving away Victorian furniture for wood scrap." Today those otherwise indestructible pieces, long derided by the English as "chocolate" (they are Hershey brown), still cost less than glued-and-screwed contemporary furniture-but probably not for long: already a Victorian sleigh bed sells for as much as $30,000. Early American furniture, particularly colonial adaptations of Queen Anne, Chippendale and Hepplewhite, are worth...
Victorian painting from both sides of the Atlantic has emerged triumphantly from post-Reginal depression. Long dismissed as sentimental kitsch, mighty canvases of noble beasts, Highland crags and soul-pierced virgins were selling for at most $1,000 in 1967; they go these days for up to $100,000. A sale of 19th century paintings at Christie's in Manhattan returned $1.9 million. "It was a lot of rubbish," snorted one Christie...