Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the major question that remains unanswered is whether the slow move toward the core will result in an innovative system of education, or whether it will simply consist of the old General Education program with new labels--whether it will be, as Beer put it, the idea of the modern era, or simply the idea of the '40s revisited...
After arriving in Peru, Rosalynn met privately with President Francisco Morales Bermúdez for almost three hours. She gently attempted to persuade her new hosts to slow the pace of the military buildup that had alarmed the Ecuadorians. This week she faces her sternest test-a three-day visit to Brazil, where the military dictatorship was outraged first by her husband's opposition to its plans to buy nuclear-fuel facilities from West Germany, and then by a State Department report citing human rights violations in Brazil...
During a four-day Conference on International Economic Cooperation held in Paris last week by 16 industrialized nations and 19 "poor" ones (which included some nouveau riche oil-producing countries), the North made what it considered a generous offer, especially given its painfully slow economic recovery. The South grudgingly accepted the package, but termed it quite inadequate and refused to give anything in exchange. Said Claude Cheysson, the European Community's commissioner for development: "We were within a hair of a breakdown. If we had known what a risk we were taking, we might never have started this dialogue...
...with the action sequences, as befits the director of The Wild Bunch. His battles - particularly one in which the German lines are overrun - are convincingly hellish jumbles of shouts, explosions, confusion and panic, which he and his film editors capture with a combination of tense, jagged cutting and horrific, slow-motion dances of death...
...Peckinpah, however, one good slow-motion shot of a soldier getting killed deserves another, and another, and another. By the time Coburn and his men run across a unit of female Russian sentries - an encounter dripping with prurience, multiple killings and a castration - Peckinpah is clearly indulging himself. Like Coburn's sergeant, who turns down a chance to be invalided out of service in order to return to the front lines. Peckinpah is undone by his attraction to the carnage he professes to loathe...