Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which opened here for the first time yesterday, because it doesn't operate on a level of ideas, and extracting a coherent linear reason from it is well-high impossible. Beautifully crafted, like the Henry James stories of Venice and the supernatural, Nicholas Roeg's picture works subliminally, its momentum of mystery sensitizing an audience like only the finest thrillers can. Here the method is a connecting set of visual imagery that tampers with the evenness of reality, giving everyday objects a threatening countenance, making the unseen real. Starring Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, and Venice...
...SUGAR-COATING for this polemic is some of the juiciest literary gossip to come out of the Bloomsbury boom, which seems to derive much of its momentum from the revelation, at well-spaced intervals, of its members' sexual habits. Bloomsbury, was, we know now, stranger than we could have imagined. Each month for the last year or so has brought a new book calculated to shock, titillate, and endear these brilliant perverts to out hearts. Lytton Strachey's fascination with the eroticism of the ear, John Maynard Keynes's penchant for the hand, and G. Lowes Dickinson's boot fetishism...
...have "the American people subjecting themselves to the economic and political blackmail of any foreign nation" that might wish to cut off the supply of the oil it exports or raise its price to outrageous heights. Still, Simon readily concedes: "My hardest job will be to keep up the momentum -to keep the American people awake to the fact that we da have a problem and will continue to have a problem...
CHICK COREA--I was introduced to my first Corea album by some musician friends in Maine who rushed out last year to buy it after he gave what they called a "near-flawless" concert at Bowdoin College. Apparently, he is steadily gaining momentum, winning more and more fans for his intricate brand of light, tight jazz. Corea and Return to Forever will play Friday night a Sanders Theater...
PRICES. Even before the energy crisis burst, the U.S. was in for a year of rising prices largely because of continuing shortages of many other products. Now the surge in petroleum costs will add devastating inflationary momentum; posted prices of Middle East crude oil have about tripled in recent months. For much of the first half of 1974, consumer prices for everything from gasoline to canned soup probably will be climbing at an astonishing annual rate of 10%. The best hope in Washington is that this rate will drop to about 4.5% in the second half, when officials believe that...