Word: safes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vietnamese are conducting this grim policy with the knowledge that large numbers of refugees who leave their native land will never reach safe harbor...
...evidence of this movie, the 1978 Grand Prize winner at Cannes, it seems safe to say that Italian Director Ermanno Olmi is no fan of Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900. Like 1900, The Tree of Wooden Clogs is a lengthy (three hours), luxuriously photographed film about Italian peasants, but after that all similarities end. 1900 was a didactic epic that attempted to merge the florid drama of opera with the tenets of Marxism; Clogs is pointedly a tranquil, nonpolemical attempt to describe the peasants' daily existence in the objective manner of documentary cinema. Given their respective goals, Olmi...
...seems to feel that the sheer homeliness of his technique amounts to blunt honesty, his aesthetic is every bit as disingenuous as that of a professional waif portraitist in Montmartre. All he has done is serve his picturesque peasants on a pretty platter so that rich people, from a safe distance, can get their fill...
...Both he and the bearer of the news, Regional FAA Director Leon C. Daugherty, had been called from their homes to keep their rendezvous. The key passage of the order declared that the engine-and-pylon assembly "may not be of proper design, material, specification, construction and performance for safe operation...
Longtime critics of the jet claim it has more basic problems. They charge that the plane does not have as many redundant or fail-safe systems to handle an emergency as other wide-bodied jets. In particular, they cite the hydraulic systems. The DC-10 has three, whereas the Lockheed TriStar has four and the Boeing 747 has five. The DC-10 places its hydraulic lines along the leading-and more exposed-wing edge, rather than in the trailing edge, where the 747's and Tri-Star's are located. Critics also claim the hydraulic lines under...