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...admire Chris Evert's consistency and dedication. She makes a perfect cross-court smash. The picture flickers. Evert reappears selling a brand of sneakers. Damn, I think, why do they have to package Evert? But the truth is that the package and person...
...fame as a songwriter, singer and movie actor? Is she furious because he restaged some torrid love scenes from the film The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea with Actress Sarah Miles for a Playboy photographer? What's this? Rita has a hit album and a smash single, Higher and Higher. What will her success do to his ego? Last week everybody in the pop world was tuning in to find out as Kris and Rita took to the road for a two-month, 23-concert joint tour...
...sexist treatment of women so common in such comedies. Embodied in such catch-all phrases as "charming" or "crazy" lies a blatant sexist attitude which suggests that women wearing nothing but loosely buttoned men's shirts three sizes too large for them, or women who irresponsibly knock over lamps, smash holes in shipbottoms, who make themselves a general and continual pain are excusable if--and only if--they possess enough sex appeal in their baby toenail to put an army of men on the scent for months. Beyond the purely visual level, Deneuve's appeal lies in the certain restlessness...
...enough: drop 35,000 British and American paratroopers in Holland, behind the German lines in the fall of 1944, and ask them to seize and hold six bridges leading to Germany proper until ground forces could get to them, a distance of 64 miles. Together the forces could then smash into the Ruhr, wipe out what was left of the enemy's war production, and everybody would be home for Christmas...
...while atomic nuclei easily split, they do not easily fuse; they have positive electric charges and thus repel each other, acting as if they had invisible springs between them. Getting them to join requires that they approach each other with enough energy to overcome their natural repulsion and smash together. Thus causing large numbers of nuclei to fuse and provide substantial energy requires three conditions: 1) very high temperatures (which impart great velocity to the nuclei), 2) high density (the nuclei crowded together to increase the probability of head-on collisions), and 3) confinement of the high-speed, densely packed...