Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they please. Contestants are divided among four categories according to weight, and prizes of $25, $10 and $5 are awarded for the longest flights in each class, along with bright blue, red and yellow ribbons. Any chicken flying farther than the "world's record" -297 ft. 2 in., set in 1977 by a Japanese blacktail bantam named Kung Flewk -receives a cash prize of $500. What makes it fun is the unpredictability of the chickens. Some fly straight and true, or reasonably so, like Kung Flewk. Some refuse to fly at all, even with encouragement from a plunger. Some...
...Valery Giscard d'Estaing, speaking on behalf of the European Community, outlined a plan to freeze European oil imports at last year's level and to "dissuade companies from lending themselves to transactions at excessive prices" in Rotterdam. But that stops well short of Giscard's earlier ideas to set specific, country-by-country import ceilings, and to put a flat ban on high-priced dealings in Rotterdam...
...thin blue vinyl notebooks that he takes to Tokyo, Carter will carry a proposal to set up an international corporation that would fund efforts to develop synthetic fuels?for example, the conversion of coal into liquid fuel...
...Set the Record Straight, Sirica...
...nature of mise-en-scene characteristic of his previous movies (including Annie Hall in which dialogue has been filmed mainly by a stationary camera in front of which the characters perform their parts while the audience views the "scene" from a single perspective). In Manhattan, such a histrionic camera set-up is almost entirely replaced by the everchanging panorama of the tracking camera. It appears as though the camera is tenaciously chasing the characters (particularly Allen) who run frenziedly along New York streets or through their apartments, which can be construed as a modern variation of the chases characteristic...