Word: souped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between a target and a gun. In theater, the action is aimed at the audience; in cinema, the audience is aimed at the action. The two arts are antagonistic, and it is almost as hard to turn a good play into a good film as it is to make soup out of soap. The feat is attempted in three current attractions based on well-known stage works. Surprisingly, two of the three are films of blasting impact...
...book restates McLuhan's increasingly familiar argument: the introduction of the alphabet 3,000 years ago, abetted by Gutenberg's introduction of movable print in the 15th century, turned mankind into the alphas and omegas of a giant cultural alphabet soup. The "seamless" and communal thought processes of tribal, preliterate man were fragmented; perception itself took on the rigid, abecedarian character of writing. Letters led to the "idea," which required structure-beginning, middle, end-and forced the writer or reader out of immediate experience and into an abstracted, objective remove from "group reality." According to McLuhan, the advent...
...gave these millions? Speculation is divided, but among those mentioned most frequently are Campbell Soup, the Duponts, Bernard Baruch, and, perhaps less seriously, the C.I.A. Whoever it was, gossip has it that Princeton's president Robert Goheen convinced the anonymous donor to throw all his loot into one pile rather than spread it around. There are those who contend "Firm X" is still watching closely over the Woodrow Wilson School's progress...
...presumed friend of a Russian, who approached was instantly plastered with spit, stones and invective. At night, bonfires on the embassy grounds cast tortured shadows of Soviet leaders hanged in effigy-Kosygin included. The 170 Russians who remained in the embassy were supplied with vodka and beer, bread and soup sent via air from Moscow and then carried in by East European and even Western diplomats who daily braved the Red Guard gauntlet. The Russians even filled their swimming pool with water in case the Chinese should shut off their supply. In Peking restaurants went up signs: "Out of bounds...
...atmosphere that make them even less attractive. In the presence of sunlight, the hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides emitted largely by automobile exhausts react to produce the sort of brownish and irritating photochemical smog that blankets Los Angeles for most of the year. "Los Angeles smog" is a highly complex soup containing, among other things, nitrogen dioxide, hydrocarbons, ozone (a highly active and poisonous form of oxygen) and peroxyacyl nitrate (commonly called PAN). "London smog," on the other hand, usually contains high quantities of sulphur oxides that react with moisture to produce a dilute but corrosive sulphuric-acid mist. Though...