Word: robust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though it seems robust, Hollywood has not escaped the results of lowered expectations. The five major studios this year will each release only eleven to 17 films, about half he number each would have produced a decade ago. Money is not the problem-film budgets have doubled since 1973. George Lucas' Star Wars and soon-to-be released extravaganzas by Francis Coppola and Steven Spielberg have a combined price tag of more than $63 million. Unfortunately, the studios' reliance on blockbuster epics means that fewer experimental movies are being made. The state's once sassy underground press...
...controversy that swirled around MacArthur when he lived has mostly died now. He has passed into history, and it would have been good to have a robust life of him: something that really attacked its subject, taking a strong point of view about him - whether for or against would not have really mattered. The Great Commander never operated in a climate of caution, and there is no good reason why this movie should. Something of the spirit of Patton is what is required. What we get instead is the plodding tone of an official biography...
...shoulders that she cannot walk without crutches. About the same time, a neighbor's son, 6, develops several large reddish rings on his skin. His temperature rises, and within days a swelling in the boy's left knee leaves him virtually immobilized. A short distance away, a robust man, 26, suddenly finds himself battling a nagging sore throat, a stiff neck and total fatigue. Before long, he feels excruciating aches in his shoulders, wrists, elbows, fingers and toes...
France's birth) and the third (on its destiny) are still to come. And Braudel, although robust, fears that he will never finish them. He is doubly sad at that prospect because people "flocked" to hear him lecture about France. "Instead of telling the story chronologically. I spoke about what is France, what is French society," reminisces Braudel. "What the French Revolution was; ah, what a subject that was. I could hear a butterfly fly when I spoke of that...
Lindbergh was a thorough professional, but he seemed to suggest a wonderful elan, a sense that anything is possible. That deep urge for individual adventure remains. Sometimes it merely involves robust hobbies - banging down white-water canyons in rubber rafts, hang gliding on the thermal currents, roping up the faces of cliffs. But beyond weekend diversion, there remains a vast array of exploration and adventure. It ranges, says Apollo 9 Astronaut Russell ("Rusty") Schweickart, "from the massive NASA kind of exploration to some intermediary type, such as Jacques Cousteau's efforts, where there is no question that the driving...