Word: looms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appear not so much slick as clumsy, silly and self-indulgent are just when they seem most real. But when today's films try to recreate those times, they leave out all that would make them appealing. In fact, they are too well made, too self-assured. Their images loom before your eyes and deny the workings of your own imagination. They create a past with which there can be no quarrel. Paula Prentiss supersedes all the memories that she should evoke...
That self-awareness resides in the brain, the organ about which scientists have the most to learn. To Physiologist Charles Sherrington, the brain's 10 billion nerve cells were like "an enchanted loom" with "millions of flashing shuttles." For some functions, M.I.T. Professor Hans-Lukas Teuber explains, brain cells are pre-programmed with "enormous specificity of configuration, chemistry and connection." Some are sensitive only to vertical lines, others only to horizontal or oblique ones. "Each of these little creatures does his thing," Teuber says...
...telecast, a self-congratulatory outing for variety performers contrived for Ed Sullivan, was well ahead in the competition until last week, when the record industry's Grammy Awards show on ABC descended past all previous lows for tedium and tastelessness. But two major contenders for the Uggy still loom ahead. TV's own Emmy show always finds fresh ways to embarrass the medium, and though little has leaked about next month's Oscar cast, there is reason to take faint heart: the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award will be given, with a straight face, to Frank Sinatra...
Like stark sentinels, they loom high above the ocean waters, seeming in storm and mist to have been there nearly as long as the sea. They are the thousands of offshore oil platforms that dot the continental shelf of North America. They are the hostile homes of the offshore oil workers, a very tough and particular breed of men. Houston Bureau Chief Leo Janos went to live among them for a time on a platform off the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. His report...
...White House has discovered Congress," observes one presidential aide, "and it is going to be romanced to death." The attempt is crucial, considering the taut and complex political climate and the stern demands that Nixon is making upon the new Congress. At the moment, serious obstacles loom for most of the major proposals Nixon is trying to push through the showdown session. They include...