Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Will not give in to Hanoi's demands for enforced Viet Cong representation in any government of South Viet Nam. "The U.S.," said the statement, "will not recognize any government that is not freely chosen through democratic and legal process by the people of South...
...reverberate in half a dozen capitals, The West Germans had defended the Deutsche Mark against the combined efforts of France, Britain and the U.S. to bring about the mark's upward revaluation, a move that would have relieved the pressure on the ailing franc and pound. In the process, the Germans displayed an independence-and a political muscle-unknown in the years since their defeat in 1945. Other Europeans found that display disturbing. As West German Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister Willy Brandt lamented: "Old, not to say atavistic instincts of distrust were awakened in Europe...
...liquidly drooping Giant Soft Fan is, among other things, a gently nostalgic evocation of times past -since, after all, air conditioning is more common nowadays. Jean Tinguely's joyous black Rotozaza, No. 1 tosses out colored balls and then sucks them back in again, a mystifying process intended as a sardonic parody of the production-consumption cycle. Baldaccini Cesar took his revenge on a high-powered yellow Buick by crushing it into a monolithic, totally stationary monument with the aid of a commercial hydraulic press. Edward Kienholz makes an irreverent visual joke out of his Friendly Grey Computer...
THIS DECISION is both professionally ethical and deeply moral, in that it implies a conviction for the purity of your working method, and an ultimate respect for the audience that finally affords everyone connected with any film the huge pay-off that justifies the slow process of shooting and cutting a dramatic narrative. But the film-maker's decision to put his cast through hell, perversely moral though it may be in the abstract, is supremely selfish. This cannot be divorced from the making of a first film any more than frame composition or cutting...
...basic error, called the "sampling error," is plus or minus two to three per cent; this is mathematically inherent in the small sample size. To decrease this error by half, the sample size would have to be quadrupled, which would be very expensive and would slow down the process so much that the results published would no longer be an accurate reflection of public opinion at the time...