Word: shortest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cinema, in which reality is "dismantled," as Resnais puts it, and reassembled in such a way that it seems to be experienced in every aspect simultaneously - one French critic describes the result as "total cinema." To begin with, Resnais annihilates time by chopping his story into short scenes-the shortest of them lasts less than a tenth of a second-and shuffling the scenes so thoroughly that no sense of chronological continuity, no sense of story remains...
...approached Australia. Glenn radioed Astronaut Gordon Cooper in the tracking station at Muchea: "That was about the shortest day I've ever run into. Just to my right, I can see a big pattern of light, apparently right on the coast." The glow was the city of Perth, which had prepared? a welcome for Glenn that was also a test of his night vision. Street lights were ablaze. Families turned on their porch lights, spread sheets out in the yard as reflectors. Taxi drivers flicked their lights on and off. When the lights were explained to him, Glenn radioed Cooper...
...optimistic is Edson Gould, partner in Arthur Wiesenberger & Co., who believes the Dow-Jones index may reach 953 before a major downturn. "I expect this market to go on for most of 1962," says he. "If the bull market is over much sooner, it will be one of the shortest rallies in history...
...hours to 20 hours in the work week for 9,000 master construction electricians, led them out on strike. He bargained from enviable strength; his electricians could paralyze the city's $1.25 billion building industry. Last week Van Arsdale's electricians won a basic 25-hour week, shortest in U.S. industry. Actually, they will work 30 hours. But by being paid for five hours a day five days a week on straight time, plus an extra hour a day at time and a half, they will collect $161.20 a week. Previously, the construction electricians had worked six hours...
...John E. McCarthy, Safety Officer, said, "we understand about the shortest distance between two points and all that, but we are concerned about the students' complete disregard for city and state regulations." Failure to signal and observe one-way restrictions have created the most serious problems in the past...