Word: pan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...filmmaker. He gives us an extraordinary sense of place, of the oppressiveness of place: one sequence has the camera walk slowly in front of benches full of old people sitting in the sun; their tired, unmoving faces say with painful accuracy a truth about America that the 360 pan at Easy Rider's commune supper could only flashily and expensively allude to. And always he's looking at things, trying to get them down, hoping that he'll finally find them assembling into the golden patterns which lay waiting at the end of the experiential rainbow...
...Julia Child cookbook is like few others. Most recipes are accompanied by chatty scientific explanations of what's going on inside the food: "Because French bread stands free in the oven and is not baked in a pan, it has to be formed in such a way that the tension of the coagulated gluten cloak [coagulated gluten cloak!] on the surface will hold the dough in shape." And take her treatment of lobsters. She tells you how to determine their sex (the last pair of swimmerets on the male are hard, pointed, and hairless). She tells you how to kill...
Travelers to London, Paris and Rome, for example, can now lock in (with $2.95) on a current Pan American promotional gimmick: tape-recorded walking tours of the cities (each narrated by a properly accented guide), as well as taped auto tours of the French and English countrysides. The tourist willing to lug a cassette player around Europe can wander the highways and byways for hours, all the while picking up inside dope like Montparnasse was a refuge for struggling artists like Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald in the years following World...
Just one year ago last week, a Pan American Boeing 747 lifted off from New York's Kennedy Airport to begin the first scheduled jumbo-jet service. The flight was six hours late because of an overheating engine. Since that unpromising beginning, the 747 has accumulated a remarkable record for a new aircraft. It has carried 7,000,000 passengers an average of 2,100 miles each, more than five times the number of passenger-miles flown by the Boeing 707 in its first twelve months of service. The statistics would have been the same...
...attracted, one thinks, to its lingering internationalism and the hope it offered for the liberation of all the oppressed in "Africa, Asia, in America and the islands of the sea." One has to remind oneself that the lecture must have been a tribute to DuBois: the true begetter of Pan-Africanism, and not to Marcus Garvey, the "black Zionist." George Padmore in his brilliant book on Pan-Africanism had made a pertinent observation on the matter: "While Garvey opposed white race prejudice with black, DuBois combated racial arrogance and social chauvinism on both sides. This he did by making...