Word: slices
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...landscapes and unfolded with the large, slow motions of the soul; his new movie makes the London scene with a Big Beat abandon that almost shakes the film off its sprockets. But the change of means does not signify a change of meaning. Antonioni presents for public inspection a slice of death: the same cold death of the heart his stories invariably describe. Yet in Blow-Up, Antonioni's anti-hero holds in his possession, if only for an instant, the alexin of his cure: the saving grace of the spirit...
...budget of $4.5 billion -bigger than any other state budget except California's and destined to swell still more next year -he is pressing the state for as much as $150 million in new aid, has opened a Washington office so that New York can get a larger slice of the federal pie. After the state legislature blocked his attempt to gather all the city's transportation functions under a unified leadership, Lindsay achieved part of his goal with an executive order. He now aims to regroup most of the city's 80-odd departments and bureaus...
Bedrock opposition to Gowon's plans came from Eastern Regional Leader Odumegwu Ojukwu, like Gowon an army lieutenant colonel, who has resisted every attempt to slice the East into tribal minorities and favors a loose confederation of regions with considerable political autonomy for each. Ojukwu's Ibos dominate the oil-rich East, and they want to keep things that way. Gowon, commanding 7,000 troops who are armed with sophisticated weapons and stirred by a stern Moslem faith, could easily put intense-perhaps fatal -pressure on Ojukwu's single battalion of 2,500 men. If he decides...
...population, buy far more than their share of the average 10.6 lbs. of fish per capita that Americans consume each year. University of Illinois Food Economist William F. Lomasney estimates that the new deal will result in a 10% drop in consumption, which could slice $200 million off the industry's $2 billion yearly retail sales. In heavily Catholic areas such as Boston and Baltimore, the cut could be deeper; when meatless Fridays ended in Canada two months ago, sales in Montreal plunged 35%, have since settled at 25% below the old level...
...Chelsea Girls didn't have to be a movie; it only crudely makes use of the possibilities of the medium. A newsletter would have served as well Warhol sets up his camers before a wall, puts an actor between the wall and the camera, and turns out a slice of life. He is aware that cameras can go in and out of focus, can move right and left and up and down, and can zoom in on their subjects. Although he uses these devices all the time, Warhol believes his material is so powerful that he need only...