Word: shallowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July. At 73? a pack (83% of that in taxes), Sweden will still rank below Denmark, where a 90% tax makes a pack of 20 cost 88?, the world's highest price for cigarettes. Swedish officials predict from experience that the boost will bring only a brief and shallow slump in sales...
Most of the selections by poets Richard Eberhart and Stephen Sandy are disappointingly shallow and listless, with the exception of Sandy's comic verses entitled "The Sultan Wears a Crimson Turban." John Allman's poem, full of mellow nostalgia for "childhood and the family," get ponderously explicit in spots...
...heart of the waterway is a 224-mile stretch in western Russia, where they replaced 39 antique locks with seven modern ones twice the size of those in the huge Volga-Don Canal, which hooks the whole system into the Black Sea. The system so far will take only shallow-draft ships, and the Russians insist that anyone who wants to ship over it do so in Russian or satellite ships. With powerful icebreakers they hope to keep traffic open even in winter...
Housing the collection are three cipolin marble-tile pavilions that rest in a shallow sea of reflecting pools (which double as air-conditioning evaporation pans). As with almost every single room within the museum, each superstructure bears the name of its local art champion. The Leo S. Bing Center contains a 602-seat theater and a children's studio...
Newley's Littlechap, in Stop the World, stood for a shallow, self-seeking Britain. The show was simple and amusing enough to rest successfully on its pantomime and song, but the simplicity disappears in Greasepaint. Littlechap, has become Cocky (Newley) and Sir (Cyril Ritchard), who, dripping with social symbolism, play The Game (of Life, get it?). The winner of each game writes the rules for the next one, so Sir, having won the first game, imprisons Cocky in a vicious loser's circle...