Word: segments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experimental dabblings of his early years, it displayed a fresh and distinctive style that is the mark of a maturing artist. Choreographed to three of Beethoven's last quartets, Orbs is a kind of astronaughty tour of love and life on the planets. In the Venusian Spring segment, the Sun God (Taylor) conducts a primer course in lovemaking, repeatedly stroking his loins until two couples get the idea and engage in a "micro-orgy." This leads to Martian Summer, in which the Sun God, wearing a mask on the back of his head, is by sudden twists and turns...
Crisis loomed over one big segment of the money market: the savings and loan associations. Tempted by higher yields elsewhere, depositors withdrew $1.5 billion from the S & Ls in July. Government money managers were so worried that dangerously nonliquid S & Ls would go under that the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which regulates the associations, arranged a $4 billion stand-by loan with the Treasury and hoped to get $5 billion more from the Federal Reserve - if needed. Says one high U.S. Treasury official: "The withdrawals scared the hell out of us. The savings and loan people were hysterical...
When Jack Kerouac took the oldfashioned track west to never-neverland in On the Road, he became pie-eyed piper to a footloose segment of the postwar Beat Generation, advancing, it was assumed, into the future...
...freezing of federal funds will delay the controversial Inner Belt Highway somewhat, by stalling land acquisitions in Roxbury, according to the Boston Globe. But the announcement of the Cambridge segment of the eight-lane highway is still expected in the next three or four weeks...
...feel the present draft system is pretty good did not bother to make the long trek out to Ohio for a conference based on the premise that it needs reform. Almost everyone, who did come was concerned with the ethics of the draft; they obviously constituted a more radical segment of the intellectual community than those who stayed at home. And while invitations were mailed out to hundreds of universities and military colleges across the country, only about 40 colleges were represented...