Word: skips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cassavetes did not skip hot off the pop "victimization" bandwagon, as Kael claims. He's not a John Guillerman or a Mark Robson--the directors of The Towering Inferno and Earthquake, respectively--who each latched on to the season's big destruction bust, star-studding their creations for box office insurance. He just doesn't see films that...
...What else is new?" Embree flopped his way to yet another cage record as he went over the bar with a leap of 7 ft. 1/4 in. And triple jumper Ahmed Kayali scored the only other first for Harvard in the field, hop, skip and jumping 46 ft, to victory...
...GREAT LEAP FORWARD nearly destroyed the gains of the previous decade. Launched in 1958 by Mao, the Leap was intended to skip several stages in building a Communist society and make China the economic equal of Britain within 15 years. Seeking to mobilize surplus rural labor for industrial tasks, Mao ordered half a billion peasants herded into huge communes. Economic planning was decentralized, as was industry. For example, despite their inefficiency, small iron smelters were constructed in backyards. The program had some successes: reservoirs, railways, hydroelectric plants and canals were built. Yet the Great Leap wasted enormous resources and disastrously...
...book a year; it shows. This one reads like transcribed dictation. It reflects phony-scientific jargon ("superaffluence") and is often simply inaccurate (the world has not run out of arable land, fish catches can be increased, perhaps even doubled.) The material is so sloppily organized that I had to skip back and forth through the book to prove to myself that all his ideas connected...
...Sinai to Egypt as another positive step toward settlement. Unwilling to suffer what might appear to be a rejection of his own brand of personal diplomacy, Brezhnev put off his trip. Although Moscow has relatively few policy differences with Syria and Iraq, Brezhnev could hardly visit those nations and skip Egypt; that would be a much harsher public slap at Sadat than the Soviet leader probably wants to administer...