Word: quare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mind of the FCC in 1945, when it set aside a sliver of the broadcast spectrum for the noncommercial use of ordinary citizens such as hunters, boaters, construction teams and farmers ranging far from homes and telephones. The first CB license was not granted until 1947. In the next quar ter-century, only 850,000 CB licenses were issued. Then came the 1973 oil embargo, speed limits were dropped to 55 m.p.h. ("double nickel" in CB argot) and truck drivers installed the units to warn each other of lurking cops ("smokey bears") and radar cars ("Kojak with a Kodak"). Television...
...close to their very being. Each of the four actresses in Cries and Whispers is perfect, and no one is permitted to be supreme. Bergman orchestrates them scrupulously, so that the film is the very definition of flawless ensemble playing. Kari Sylwan, the only one of the quar tet unfamiliar from previous Bergman films, gives Anna a strange, almost mys tical sense of strength. Liv Ullmann's Maria is that rare creation, a vacuous creature of substance. This seeming paradox is one excellent measure of Berg man's talent, and Miss Ullmann...