Word: portion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Patients with poor appetites after surgery, he explained, are disturbed by the conventional big plate on which a small portion of food appears to be lost. While they pick at the food, they complain that they are being starved. The same amount of food on smaller, better-designed tableware, says Staples, is more appetizing. Getting the patients to eat better sooner speeds their recovery...
...Americans who see foreign-language films, more indeed can follow the original dialogue than Crowther maintains. And for those who cannot, subtitles provide the sense without depriving anyone of the vital, special sound of the original. This way, everyone in the audience is served; with dubbing, a large portion of the audience is cheated. Crowther also dismisses completely, as the eminent novelist-critic-essayist Carl Van Vechten remarked in his letter, the sizable number of deaf people, for whom subtitled movies constitute almost the only satisfactory theatrical experience. In addition the preservation of the original sound acts as a check...
...himself is a thin ascetic with thick lips, a hooked nose and large black eyes, "full of light, full of darkness-all intimidation and sweetness. Flickering like those of a snake, they stared at you from between the long lashes, and your head reeled." He has had his own portion of tragedy before the story begins; as a young man he had been in the act of proposing to Mary Magdalene when he was felled by an epileptic seizure and carried off frothing. The shock set "proud-gaited, high-rumped Magdalene" on a career that made her the most famous...
...years-ever since the decline of the big cinemoguls-a major portion of Hollywood starland was dominated by Stevenson liberals, whose political commitment was more than makeup-deep...
...also vividly remembers the uprising in Iraq which ended with the assassination of King Feisal. There is ample cause for unrest in the Shah's kingdom, and from across the border, Radio Moscow keeps up a steady drumfire of abuse. In his shabby capital of Teheran, a small portion of the population lives in splendor while the rest exist in the squalor of centuries, washing themselves in the open gutter jubes which double as sewers and water mains. In the arid countryside, the poor scrape the soil at wages of 60? a day while absentee landlords flatly refuse...