Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important: "A vague anguish drifting from page to page is enough to demonstrate the existence of the bomb." The writer's totalization belongs to the domain of non-knowledge. But without it, he would be reckoning up an abstract world, not a living world, and that is the shallow goal of an entertainer or a fraud...
Just Before Nightfall is among the very best of Chabrol's movies. It is cunning and deadly, made with a measured simplicity of style which suits the ruefully ironic rigors of the theme. Attempts to delineate a sort of arctic moral climate, to deal with shallow people and the deadness of lives, frequently end up either being superficial themselves or strangling on their own rage. Chabrol's particular achievement here is his ability to keep his distance and still preserve his passion...
...industrial accidents, few are messier than oil spills. Floating booms can contain surface oil and keep it from spreading while it is picked up and recovered by giant vacuum cleaners. Straw filters can be used to pick up oil that makes its way into shallow waters. But scientists have been trying for years to develop more effective methods of dealing with spills. Now one team seems to have succeeded. General Electric announced last week that scientists at its Schenectady, N.Y., laboratories have created a microbe that can eat petroleum in quantity...
...stadium in Honolulu eight years ago, they wanted an all-purpose arena that would serve equally well for football and baseball, a neat trick never satisfactorily performed. For example, when stadiums basically designed for football are also used for baseball, the outfield is likely to be so shallow that even weak hitters tend to turn into Hank Aarons. Charles Luckman Associates, the big Los Angeles architectural firm, decided on a novel approach: they designed a stadium that called for two large grandstand sections in fixed positions at the north and south ends of the field; the four other sections, paired...
...great old army tank, hit decades ago by an enemy shell, sunken in a shallow lagoon. The iron flaps of the tank's turret are rusted open, steadily washed over by the waves; its corroded gun defiantly trains on trenches and machine-gun nests, long buried in the sands of a deserted beach...