Word: semis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the 11:01 a.m. train from Manhattan pulled into Southampton-still a semi-exclusive summer enclave on the eastern tip of Long Island-the scene that greeted the passengers was not to be believed. Rumbling and banging down the street came a wave of empty kerosene drums propelled by perfectly straight-faced adults; a horde of children were bouncing large weather balloons on their heads. In the midst of the turmoil were two homemade Hovercraft, a foot above the ground, one ridden by a curvaceous brunette billed as "Liquid Hips," the other by a menacing figure in black plastic...
...twelve years since the U.S. began dumping its awkward farm surpluses overseas on semi-giveaway terms, so much of the glut has disappeared that now the nation must try to expand farm output after 33 years of curbing it. Twice this year, Washington has increased its price supports for dairy products, and it is now asking farmers to plant 10% more rice, 15% more wheat. For lack of grain to store, Cargill, Inc. last month closed its largest elevator in Buffalo. With India consuming a quarter of the U.S. wheat crop this year, as against a fifth last year...
...secret Yes in his semi-documentary technique, his legacy from the post-war Italian neo-realist film-makers, coupled with Rosi's own sensitivity to detail. During the bullring scenes particularly, Rosi's skillful use of faces in the crowd provides a visual comment on the action which raises the film far above the newsreel level. Or, is another instance, Rosi places Miguelin outside the Madrid ring selling souvenirs and records the scens when a policeman, unaware that he was on candid camera, chases the poor boy away...
...newspaper A.B.C. is an institution in Spain. Usually dull, always conservative, it is nevertheless the most widely read and influential paper in Madrid. Besides, as the semi-official organ of the nation's organized monarch ists, it can justly claim to represent the government's position that Franco will one day be succeeded by a King. Yet early one morning last week, security cops moved in on newsstands to confiscate all copies of the paper they could find, readers. It even was the grabbed first it time from that A.B.C. sidewalk had been banned since the fall...
...started out as a semi-private affair, but if demand mushrooms. Nightingale needs. "The CRIMSON often magnifies interest in these things," he chuckled...