Word: overviews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thirsites' cynical viewpoint remains consistently the same, and the structure of the play as it evolves becomes more and more an argument for support of his overview. Shakespeare gives the last lines of the play to Pandarus, who refers to the time when he will make out his will...
...repair its image, the Dade County Port Authority recently hired former Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall and his new environmental-consulting firm, Overview Group, to study the impact of an airport and seek alternatives. Udall says that he refused to take the job until the Port Authority promised to freeze jetport construction after the first runway, and showed itself sincerely open-minded on optional sites for a commercial terminal. "We are not going to justify a decision already made," said Udall. "We're hoping to establish planning parameters for the entire southern Florida environment." But Port Director Alan...
...small accomplishment; it's all there, as obvious as a Wheaties box. Tropici is betrayed by Amico's failure to integrate his narrative and documentary concerns, to deal with them not in isolation but in interaction. This failure gives his statement on foreign exploitation the ring of a superficial overview, rendering it less forceful, less immediate and real. The few times he manages to bring both elements into focus at once are the film's high points--for instance, a panning shot of the passengers waiting for their truck at a gas station starts out as a simple portrait...
...Angeles Bureau Chief Marshall Berges took on the job of providing an overview from the state government and community leaders. Martin Sullivan, recently arrived from Montreal, went into the East Los Angeles barrios to distill the Mexican-American way of life-and found the Chicanos strikingly similar in mood and plaint to their French-Canadian cousins in Quebec. Sandra Burton observed the importation of "green-card" nonunion workers from Mexico and covered the climax of a 100-mile march between El Centro and Calexico, in which, she reports, the heat hit 120° and blisters "were like merit badges...
...University of Arizona, became Secretary of the Interior under John F. Kennedy '40 in 1961 and continued as Secretary through the Johnson administration. He has long been noted as a supporter of conservation and anti-pollution efforts, and he is now chairman of the board of The Overview Group, an environmental consulting organization...