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...affected, reacting in knee-jerking kind, and the rest remains strangely but decidedly untouched. The performance of Chinese Wisecrackers leaves one with the aftertaste of cotton candy: an elaborated string of one-liners are no more satisfying than an anticipated huge mass of lip-smacking pink confection--both melt away in mouth and memory in a very short time...
Events begin to melt into impressions as the show's beginning nears. Describable happenings become images jotted into a notebook. Before the trend of continuity is lost, a few facts should be noted. I watched Stevie Wonder's set in the company of Bill Morrison. I have volunteered to help stand in front of the stage when the Stones come on, mostly out of a desire to be near whatever action the evening held...
...rage. I melt. I burn." In these smoldering terms, Germaine Greer, the muliebral but mildly misogamist priestess of Women's Lib, announced in London's Sunday Times that she had fallen in love with an unidentified male. Elaborating on her feelings, she continued: "I also simper and maunder. I am no better than an imbecile. I have collapsed into gaping idiocy. Give me excess of it, that the appetite may sicken and so die. I am treacherous...
Skeptics, including many distinguished scientists, remain unconvinced that every precaution has been taken. During a reactor's operation, the worst possible contingency is the uncontrolled melting of its nuclear core. To preclude such an occurrence, which the AEC calls "the maximum credible accident," the core is continually bathed in cooling water; the AEC even requires an emergency set of pipes and valves to continue supplying the water if one set is severed. Unfortunately, simulated tests by the AEC itself have shown that the reserve pipes, the "emergency core cooling system" (ECCS), may also fail. What would happen...
...treated. He is said to have consistently opposed any steps toward coming to terms with the U.S. and he reportedly urged military action to break the blockade of North Viet Nam. He opposed Brezhnev on domestic matters as well. But the hard-liners in foreign policy will not simply melt away, and they will continue to constitute a potential check on Brezhnev...