Word: spans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...created African villages on Hollywood back lots, Holocaust was filmed in the area where its horrors actually happened. One of the key locations was the Austrian prison camp of Mauthausen, which was used to simulate Auschwitz and Buchenwald. "It was a frightening place," says Berger. "The average life span of a Jew there was 48 hours. At one point in the filming, Cyril Shaps, a totally professional English actor of Jewish descent, was putting on his pajama-striped prison garb in the barracks at Mauthausen; suddenly he said, 'I don't think...
...Japanese group has announced plans to build a health spa and longevity research center there. But it will take more than a sampling of the Vilcabambans' vaunted regimen of hard work, low-calorie and low-animal-fat diet and high-altitude living to extend the normal life span. Concedes Leaf: "This lifestyle, although it kept them healthy and vigorous, didn't contribute to longevity...
Riesman said that a factor related to the decline of writing quality is the decline of reading skills. "Today our attention span seems shorter," he said...
Fifteen years have passed since Willem de Kooning, one of the last patriarchs of abstract expressionism, moved out of Manhattan to live and work near East Hampton, among the flat green potato fields and salty inlets of Long Island. This span of time was for him, in the jargon of art history, a "period." His manner of painting changed, becoming looser, splashier, more atmospheric than it had ever been before. The drawing loosened too, and the place supplied him with a different subject matter-a landscape of dunes and water reflections, green groves and pink bodies half eroded by light...
Mike Stenhouse came off the bench to hit twice from downtown, and Mark Hadley scored seven points in a six-minute span to keep the hoopsters in the game, as his three-point play cut the Columbia margin to 40-29 with 1:23 left in the half...