Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those same chills as you realize you're going to see that same fight for the third time in two movies. They couldn't let a good fight end after 15 rounds, so you'll sit through 45. The third time around, you'll even see it in show-motion streams of sweat and blood...
Supporters of the overlay could muster only six votes and the motion was defeated, but the council later declared the ordinance passed and went to court to defend that action...
...question of whether or not Kennedy's popularity is high in Cambridge is moot," City Councilor Saundra Graham said yesterday. Graham cast the one dissenting vote on the motion to put the question of Kennedy's candidacy on the ballot. "Kennedy should decide for himself if he is going to run, not me or anyone else," she said. "We should not try to draft someone for the presidency...
Though they have no constituency, the refugees have sympathizers in many countries. In Paris, Mayor Jacques Chirac proposed that the city charter a ship and a plane to bring 1,500 refugees into France immediately. The motion was finally passed, with abstentions by the Communists, for whom stories of the Vietnamese boat people have become an embarrassment. The people of Iowa have pledged to accept 1,500 refugees for resettlement this year, and are disappointed that transportation for the Vietnamese has not yet been arranged. Says Iowa Refugee Official Richard Whitaker: "We are ready for them and upset that...
...Yorker cover of Saul Steinberg's to a wall inscription of Pompeii. Gombrich's central thesis concerns the need for order that resides in every human brain. Sometimes nature is accommodating: in hexagonal snowflakes, in the rhythmic chirping of crickets, in the natural laws of gravity and motion. Far more often, the eye sees chaos and the hand seeks to regulate it. The manner of regulation, says Gombrich, exhibits itself in decorative art. From the most elaborate Gothic structures to the smallest Christmas trees, individuals constantly attempt to fill in blank spaces and correct eccentricities. Some...