Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After its two-week tour of the U.S., the Chinese table tennis team had plenty to tell the home folks about the ways of the mysterious West. In Ann Arbor, Mich., for instance, the visitors scurried for shelter as a welcoming group of radicals bellowed in Chinese, "Down with American imperialism!" And at a ballet performance in Manhattan, they listened sympathetically as Actor Dustin Hoffman observed: "It must be very difficult for you to come from China, where the spirit is so high, to here where the spirit...
...Italians la dolce vita has turned as harsh and unpleasant as the unseasonably cold and wet Roman spring. The economic miracle of Il Boom has petered out, leaving inflation and unemployment. The average Italian worker now spends $1.22 of his $1.55 hourly salary merely for food and shelter. Unemployment stands at 1,167,000, or 6.1% of the working force. Housing is so limited that every city has its shack dwellers-while Italy has a surplus of empty luxury apartments. Hospitals are desperately overcrowded; schools are running on three shifts. Rome University, built to cope with 12,000 students...
Competitors will have to pack over two miles into the area from the Hermit Lake Shelter, winter headquarters for the U.S. Forest Service, due to the threat of late spring avalanches on Mount Washington...
...with the visual side of the concert. Just as the concert departed from the conventional rock format of seemingly endless jam sessions to present essentially note for note renditions of the original songs, so too the movie ignores the trends of its two important predecessors. Woodstock and Gimme Shelter. Woodstock and Gimme Shelter employed slick camera techniques, clever editing, split screens, and concentrated as much on the events surrounding the concerts as the music itself. The Concert for Bangladesh, on the other hand, uses the most pedestrian of camera techniques, choosing to focus mainly on the performers' faces, with only...
...renovated playground will have two basketball courts, two volleyball courts, an arts - and - crafts shelter, a playground for very small children and a grassy area. Twenty-one new trees will be planted...