Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other models are in for smaller changes (except for slow-selling convertibles, which will be dropped altogether). The intermediate-size Rebel will sport little new styling, though its sales have been off by 23% during a year in which A.M.C.'s overall performance has shown modest improvement (233,000 cars so far, v. 207,000 in 1967). Much of the success has been due to the doughty American, which Chairman Roy M. Chapin decided to promote as a competitor to small foreign imports. So far, sales are slightly ahead of the 1967 pace -not bad for a car whose...
...twelve; other STOL-type planes that have begun to enter the U.S. air-taxi/commuter business, like Canada's De Havilland Otter and the Helio Courier, have only a fraction of McDonnell Douglas' payload. Fully loaded, the plane can cruise at 250 m.p.h., land at speeds as slow as 55 m.p.h. on a 500-ft. runway; it can take off within 1,000 ft. (one-seventh the length of La Guardia's shortest shuttle runway...
...country's Ministry of Education have put together an illustrated book in Swahili, with English translations, on rudimentary business practices. Featured are Mr. Shida, a bumbling, unsuccessful shopkeeper, and Mr. Ali, a progressive, flourishing entrepreneur. Mr. Shida, for example; is in serious trouble because his debtors are slow to pay him. Mr. Ali, by contrast, avoids that kind of bind by shrewdly refusing to give credit. A typical lesson deals with the display of merchandise in shop windows: "One of these cakes has flies on it. The other cake is safe under glass. Which would...
CHAUSSON: SYMPHONY IN B FLAT MAJOR; FRANCK: LES EOLIDES (London). Ernest Chausson was a slow, self-doubting composer who shunned large undertakings, and is best known for his minor songs. The symphony form, he complained, caused him endless anxiety: "It is lively but not very much so, being somber and weighty too." His B Flat Major displays none of these characteristics. It is instead a pleasant, supple work, replete with gracefully phrased suggestions and intuitions, rather like prettified Wagner. Ernst Ansermet leads the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in an appropriately understated performance. Chausson was one of Cesar Franck...
Finally, a camera style of slow and balanced moving shots is, successfully executed, one of the great joys of narrative film. When Chris goes to Paul to reassure him in a scene discussed earlier, Chabrol cuts together shots already in motion, joining a shot moving left in a circular are, a crane down from high angle, a forward track moving left, one moving right, and a pull back to wide-angle. The effect is again one of montage--the creation of masterful rhythm from smaller individual rhythms -- and again the illusion gives way to the truth of the image...