Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter in an ancient Nordic alphabet. Any resemblance, however, is probably coincidental. The peace design was devised in Britain for the first Ban-the-Bomb Aldermaston march in 1958. The lines inside the circle stand for "nuclear disarmament." They are a stylized combination of the semaphore signal for N (flags in an upsidedown V) and D (flags held vertically, one above the signaler's head and the other at his feet...
...spoils of success. She now owns a kind of fun house, the aviary on the old John Barrymore estate in Beverly Hills, complete with six telephones, no working clocks, a zoo of stuffed animals and a desk full of middle-class repair bills. She has taken up the signal causes of her generation-sleeping-in with the Indians at Alcatraz, demonstrating against the ABM. But just as she has nagging doubts about her acting, she is not sure she is going about her reformist duties in quite the right way. During the shooting of Soldier Blue she organized a Moratorium...
...each event in the film would affect his audience. And in the film's realization, Truffaut's spare performance as Dr. Itard and the boy's bestial miming both work against every conventional means of melodramatic expression, so that in no case does the playing of a scene signal, "I am a piece of drama being played for emotion." It is rather the simple conditions of each situation that shape our emotional responses...
...sacrifice a card-carrying Republican for someone more ideologically in tune with the Administration. Apart from Goodell, the insistence on ideological purity has greater practical significance for the future. Such Republican liberals as Charles Percy, Mark Hatfield and Edward Brooke, whose terms expire in 1973, undoubtedly perceive the warning signal: if necessary, Nixon is prepared to sacrifice even Republican liberals to alter the character of the Senate. Conservative Robert Dole of Kansas does nothing to allay such apprehensions when he says: "The liberals in the Senate are still important, but they're not the key votes." Then Dole muses...
Furbush did not fare so well. The Cornell signal-caller left the game in the fourth quarter with torn muscles around his rib cage, and is listed as a doubtful starter for this week's game with Yale...