Word: spans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mind veers. "Sometimes she's real normal," a close source reports. "But she really is not in very good shape. Talking with her is like talking to a 15-year-old, with lapses back to three years of age." According to a defense attorney, Albert Johnson, "Her attention span is very limited. She does not have a realization of the enormity of the charges against her. Her thoughts are disjointed, disconnected. She thinks of the moment rather than the hour, the day or the future...
...attention span shrank to grasshopper proportions. He heard voices that told him his girl friend was dead, that his father had committed suicide...
...nearby Daly City, hundreds of cliffside homes overlooking the Pacific slide into the sea. Most other frame dwellings remain standing, but their interiors are a maelstrom of flying dishes, bookshelves and wall hangings. Landslides block the northern end of the Golden Gate Bridge. The great span itself, although whipping like a giant snake, appears to be holding. The Bay Bridge, too, survives the initial battering, but its clogged approaches fall, bringing down hundreds of cars with them. In the Bay Area Rapid Transit System's 3.6-mile-long underwater link between San Francisco and Oakland, hundreds of commuters...
...antitrust action that the networks' agreement to ban violent shows from early prime time amounts to collusion. In the fuss, the original issue of violence on TV has been lost. Another loser may well be the fresh, funny irreverence of the sitcoms that for only a brief span of time has lit the wasteland...
...Italian prints span styles from the ex-Futurist Carlo Carra's surprisingly static "The Acrobats," to the Surrealis precursor Giorgio de Chirico, who by 1921 had also reverted to a more academic style. De Chirico had switched from his earlier eerie, suspended space and stifled-emotion realism to a less exciting neoclassicism...