Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actual number of whites and nonwhites going to school together-the real aim of integration-has been small. A similar failure to achieve much actual integration occurs in many forced-busing cities, as Armor keeps pointing out, but at a much greater cost in pain, dislocation and plain cash...
...most talented figures in European film making: Cinematographer Nestor Almendros (Claire's Knee) and Composer Ennio Morricone (1900). Their work is stunning; yet there is no mistaking Days of Heaven for anything other than an American movie. Malick's ability to capture the terror in plain, homespun settings recalls the spooky vistas of Painter Edward Hopper. The film's naive narration-recited in deadpan colloquialisms by the teen-age Linda-is right out of Ring Lardner's sardonic stories. In the tradition of these other native ironists, Malick keeps his distance from his material. Though built...
...Evergreen, Plain...
...Chamberlain) of the vacant Holy See, gave a signal and the 70-member Sistine Chapel choir started to sing Veni Creator Spiritus (Come Holy Spirit). The Cardinals then filed into the Sistine Chapel. There, beneath Michelangelo's great fresco The Last Judgment, they seated themselves on facing rows of plain chairs at twelve long tables. There were too many Cardinals this time to accommodate them with the traditional canopied velvet thrones...
...Chesapeake, Michener (1 last week) 2. Scruples, Krantz (2) 3. Eye of the Needle, Follett (4) 4. Evergreen, Plain (3) 5. The Holcroft Covenant, Ludlum (5) 6. The World According to Garp, Irving (6) 7. The Last Convertible, Myrer (10) 8. Bloodline, Sheldon (7) 9. The Women's Room, French 10. Stained Glass, Buckley...