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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main thing to playing cornerback is reading keys effectively," he continued. Keys are the first moves made by an offensive player, usually revealing where the play is going...
...ideas would work out, Saarinen took over an abandoned movie theater in Pontiac, Mich., built a full-scale mockup. To find out what was needed, Mielziner plotted out 150 plays that he had designed (among them Death of a Salesman, The King and I, South Pacific), discovered that the main action in almost every play took place in a triangle whose base rested on the footlights. Mielziner and Saarinen boldly flipped the triangle so that it was pointing out into the audience, thus doubling the prime acting area available. When the extra thrust stage is not wanted...
They do, however, pay tribute to Tillich. Said one of the movement's main figures, Emory University's Thomas J. J. Altizer, when he heard of Tillich's death: "I think he has been the only theologian who has made possible theological thinking in a contemporary and realistic way in our history. He was the only one with courage enough to face the secular consciousness and society of the 20th century...
...still far from over. Independent gas suppliers are growing increasingly aggressive; some of them push their products by using beautiful girls as station-to-station salesmen. "Pirate tankers"-large tanker trucks with two full-sized petrol pumps attached to the rear-now tour main roads to sell motorists cut-rate gas as they speed to work or sporting events. Roadside operators have also begun to buy "distress lots" of ungraded gas and sell it cheaply under such names as "Zoom" and "Whoosh." Some of it is only 60 octane, hardly enough to run a sewing machine-but the British motorist...
...extraordinarily complicated--one of the main arguments of the anti-PR force's is that few voters understand the system. "They've been using it for 24 years and still don't know what it's about," says Lawrence Brennan, who is leading the fight against...