Word: pastes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sell a stock, the purists among them profess to care less about such fundamentals as a company's assets, its earnings, its management or even what it does. Instead, the chartists divine the fu ture of a stock by poring over a dis play of its past performance. The zigs and zags may ignore the fundamental "facts," but more important, technicians argue, the charts reflect what the mar ket knows (or thinks it knows) about a company. One reason the chartists can be right: corporate insiders learn in ad vance about their company's earnings or new products...
...great painter-and the documentary-film maker never touches the plane of pure fiction. In his first feature film, The Song and the Silence, director-writer-photographer Nathan Cohen tries to re-create the world of Polish Jewry just before the Nazi holocaust of 1939. To summon up the past, he meticulously compiles scene after scene of scholars poring over the Talmud, women dancing the hora, rabbis lecturing-and finally, Germans plundering. At almost every turn, Cohen, a television news cameraman, betrays his background. Amateur performances only serve as bridges between static reconstructions; when there is action...
...sprouted on the Nevsky Prospekt and other major avenues during the siege, with the warning: "Citizens: In case of shelling, this side of the street is the most dangerous." Today, the signs have been repainted as they were. Touched up every spring, they stand as reminders of a past too terrible to be buried...
...having lived through World War II himself. Instead, he feels, he has been consigned by history to a time in which he cannot dramatically affect the course of events or participate in them. Siggy's anger at the present, and his awareness that it is haunted by the past, are reinforced in other sections of his notebooks, called "the Zoo Watch." These tell of nights spent at the zoo, where he catches the night watchman-an ex-Nazi who once tortured Jews-tormenting the animals now in his charge...
There are many types of phobia. According to Dr. Baker, these particular three were chosen because they have been eliminated by clinical treatment in the past. So far, 70 people have signed up for therapy in public speaking. The respondents for claustrophobia and acrophobia have been fewer, and these programs may be temporarily deferred. Treatment for the phobia consists of twice-weekly sessions which last for two months...