Word: melt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arctic icebergs, normally far smaller, would probably melt away before reaching Northern Hemisphere processing points...
...three enemy youngsters cross into no man's land, twelve of Smokey's gang set off at a run to intercept them. No weapons are visible yet, but the mood is ugly. Fortunately, a cruising police car happens by before the two groups collide, and the antagonists melt into studied casual poses. "They know there's gonna be trouble," observes a Montgomery. "Norris is gonna move on us tonight, and the Man's got the word...
...that global thermal pollution, not crowding, will probably impose the first total limit to economic growth on earth. Many people estimate that the thermal pollution required to bring earth's present population up to America's present standard of living, without depending on nonrenewable resources, will be enough to melt the polar icecaps and drown most of the people and almost all of the farms in the world. (Jay Forrester's group, for example, recommends that underdeveloped countries slow down their growth now, because it will be impossible on earth to close the gap between them and us.) This form...
...McGEORGE, our little Bundy of joy--ice wouldn't melt under her feet. And Don Price, professor of Government, and monarch of the JFK School of Government, priced himself out of our market; he cancelled a date with the Governor of Rhode Island in order to skate for the Evening With Champions...
...social satire is as deep and (necessarily) involved as any written or filmed: it is also hugely entertaining. Viewing a tottering upper-class in pre-World War II France. Renoir involves us in an atmosphere where dated concepts of honor attained through individual merit (and in nationalist conquests) melt in the midst of equally outmoded and even blinder French aristocratic gamesmanship. Underneath the veneer, worker and German frustration seethes. The plotting and editing are whirlwind: if you can't catch everything first time around, you ski across the surface of each situation and get some idea of the terrain...