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Word: preys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indeed, it solves all the problems Godard's been worrying about recently. It's self-critical cinema which assumes the reality of nothing except the event actually taking place on the screen. It's popular cinema that works, yet is rigorously intellectual; it incorporates fiction and polemic without falling prey to either, instead placing its reality exactly in the balance between...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: The Sophist Antonio das Mortes at Lowell House, 8 and 10 tonight | 12/4/1970 | See Source »

...suggest a chase within the house, the director achieves an even more perfect fusion of film and stage action. As the real Soldier and Gloria gape from one open window, the other window shutter springs open, on film, and we see the ominous Mrs. Schmidt-Gordon seeking her prey...

Author: By James M. Lewis, | Title: The Theatregoer In 3 Zones now at the Charles Playhouse | 10/29/1970 | See Source »

Fortunately, there is no lack of natural enemies. One researcher lists more than 200 insects alone that prey on mosquitoes, to say nothing of birds, fish and other creatures. The problem is how to spot the one most likely to exterminate California's menacing mosquitoes while also ensuring that the new parasite will not upset the ecology of the region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Menacing Mosquitoes | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

...soldier stoically accepted Martin Luther King's proscriptions against violent protest. But such stoicism gave way to impatience, even riots, among black youths. Consequently, many of to day's black soldiers are yesterday's rioters. Also, King and Robert F. Kennedy, the young black's ghetto heroes, have fallen prey to the very violence he had been led to reject...

Author: By Wallace TERRY Ii.), | Title: Bringing the War Home... | 10/8/1970 | See Source »

...tree trunks grew progressively blacker, however, it became easier for birds to see and prey upon the speckled variety of the peppered moth. The once-vulnerable black moth, becoming indistinguishable against the darkening bark, found it easier to survive and multiply. By 1900, black peppered moths outnumbered the speckled variety by 99 to 1. Between 1952 and 1964, in a continuing survey made near one industrial town, not a single speckled moth was found. Eventually, this example of evolutionary forces at work became standard fare in college biology courses, illustrating the adaptability of organisms to a changing environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Evolution by Pollution | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

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