Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strings. A realistic 60-foot gorilla would have been a bit much for people who a mere 30 years before had dived out of their seats at the sight of a moving train on the screen, afraid it would run them over. Both the film-makers and the main characters were adventures--creating special effects on an unprecedented scale--and part of the film's charm lies in the breathless sense of discovery that infuses every shot, heightened with each passing reel. It's something Dino De Laurentiis' repulsive, self-conscious, exploitive remake never touches. And it's as good...
...dedication of the Steve Biko Memorial Library unfortunately failed to mention the issue of Afro-American Studies. Afro-American Studies was not only the subject of a featured speech by Afro-American Studies Department (AASD) concentrator Rick Guthrie, but was also high-lighted throughout the day as the main example of the institutional racism ox Harvard University. The news stories also neglected the role of the KSG Black Caucus in initiating the march to the Kennedy School and encouraging the renaming of the library. Pamoja Burrell, spokesperson for the KSG Black Caucus, delivered the keynote address, which was scarcely mentioned...
...example, in Australia's Outback, the collision with civilization has turned many aborigines into drunkards. By 10 a.m. the main street of Alice Springs is littered with squatting aborigines waiting for the bars to open, their alcoholism bankrolled by government dole. Only a few years ago, the Cinta Largas tribe in Brazil was bombed and strafed from the air, and the survivors gunned down by hunting parties, all to permit loggers to clear the tribe's lands...
...their own. They would be saying, as Murrow put it: "This is a tiny tithe, just a little bit of our profits . . . to indicate our belief in the importance of ideas." Murrow saw trouble "unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us." Murrow that night was concerned, gloomy, a little shrill. He said he wasn't proposing to make television a 27-inch wailing wall, but his message sounded a bit like that. The power that Murrow wanted media lords like Paley...
Technicians yesterday continued to cool the reactor core slowly as they prepared for an eventual cold shutdown. The main coolant water temperatures had fallen to 249 degrees by afternoon, a drop of one degree since Saturday...