Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...catharsis can only come from such a closely-knit sequence of highly charged events compressed into a narrow time span. If those events all work together to virtually place the viewer inside the main character's skin, the film attains tragic proportions; if they do not, it degenerates into sensationalism. In The Pawnbroker the backdrop of the city creates a matrix which binds up the different devices and makes them effective. The pawnbroker's cage or the ugly apartment houses standing for the community achieve a near-symbolism, so that the viewer stops thinking in terms of reality and enters...
Goldenson's technicians tell him that ABC's bird could be built and launched for $9,000,000. Annual maintenance during its five-to ten-year life span has been estimated at a mere $1,500,000. Moving in quickly last week, Comsat insisted that operation of such a continental bird would be "our function, under the law passed by Congress." A subsequent preliminary meeting of ABC, Comsat, and Federal Communications Commission officials seemed to confirm the claim. But ABC would, of course, still enjoy an enormous economy with the new satellite, and at its annual meeting, also...
...anecdotal descriptions of lobbies, press, and House personnel, are primarily valuable for random inside information and for Bolling's priceless characterizations: William Colmer's political position "is perhaps slightly to the left of Ivan the Terrible"; Adam Clayton Powell's attention span "has been variously estimated as ranging between forty seconds to two minutes"; the Rule's Committee is "Howard Worth Smith's efficiently run cemetery" and "that contemporary version of a French Bourban soirees...
...markets dried up, and the land went backward, ignored by the rest of the nation. In this "other" Brazil, a bare, beaten region more than twice the size of Texas, 26 million Brazilians live in misery, almost 80% of them illiterate, disease and hunger holding the average life span to an appalling 35 years. Most nordestinos wring a grudging subsistence from the land, which is alternately scorched by drought and ravaged by flood and yields one-fourth as much corn, one-fifth as much cotton as the average acre of U.S. farmland. "Our agriculture," said Ceará State Governor Virg...
...with a piece of music, the viewer must react to the abstract qualities of a non-representational art with a willingness to be moved. Like rhythm, melody, and harmony in music, coloristic spacial structural themes are the essentials of this art. An appreciation of these qualities requires a substantial span of time before the canvas...