Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tool that would yield, among other things, the exact distance between earth and moon, proof of whether there is really any drift between continents and accurate figures on the earth's wobble. The major reason for the trouble was apparently that earth monitors were not immediately able to plot the site of Tranquillity Base accurately enough for the laser beams to hit their lunar mark...
Until last week the plot was thus about as involved as Dick and Jane. Enter Russell Long, chairman of the Finance Committee and junior Senator from Louisiana, some of whose campaign contributors look upon a cut in the oil-depletion allowance as something akin to matricide. With scarcely a sideways glance at the Democratic leadership, which wanted delay, Long bolted party ties and brought the surtax, minus reform, to a committee vote. With two Democrats defecting, it was approved 9 to 8. Some saw a trace of hubris in Long's defiance of his party's leadership. Since...
...Filthy Plot. The Crusade's crusade was quickly taken up by the John Birch Society, whose founder, Robert Welch, decided that sex education was a "filthy Communist plot," akin to community fluoridation plans. So far, communities in 35 states have become embroiled in disputes over sex courses, inspired by such colorfully named parents' organizations as Sanity of Sex (S.O.S.), Parents Against Universal Sex Education (PAUSE), and the Movement to Restore Decency (MOTOREDE). Although the unsubtle hand of the Christian Crusade and the Birch Society can be detected in most of these groups, the campaign against sex education...
...Planet of the Apes); Quincy Jones, 36 (In the Heat of the Night). They use jazz, pop and rock as freely as the latest serial and electronic techniques. Like Henry Mancini, who started the trend toward mod sound in the late '50s, they know when to support the plot if the characters are of secondary importance, and vice versa. Schifrin has a deft jazz touch that only Mancini and Jones can match, although his personal leaning is toward Latinesque blues. Schifrin's version of the blues is a way of expressing passion and depicting people in a cooler...
Under Peter Hall's restrained direction, Bloom and Steiger prove adept as stiff-upper-lip types. They are given fervent support by Geeson and by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company. But no troupe could be expert enough to elevate 3 Into 2 from its confined and pallid plot...