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...memoir of the first half of his life. His account of growing up in a comfortable, mildly eccentric Milwaukee clan, drifting into radical politics in the '20s and discovering the depth of his commitment to poetry is sometimes a near hypnotized surrender to a series of rather static reveries...
...mystery may now be solved. Physicist Edward Pierce reported to a recent conference on lightning and static electricity in San Diego that spraying sea water into holds can generate static electricity at the same rate as a summer thunderstorm. Though the resulting spark would be no lightning bolt, it could touch off a highly explosive mixture of air and oil vapors...
...mysteries to bedevil the mind, which can effectively master the patterns unwinding before it. The spectator, like the Eye of God, can scrutinize the same play from three or four different angles. (This is more significant for football, where the action is rich and diverse, than for linear and static sports like baseball, golf, or tennis...
...directed Armee Clandestine has taken high losses, and according to informed sources is no longer capable of carrying out a sustained offensive. The Royal Lao Army, assigned to static defense of major towns and bases, has found its area of control shrinking steadily...
...Confession is the latest effort of the brilliant Greek director Costa-Gavras, who made Z. The new film is savage, methodical and painstakingly realistic; it is also static, relentless and thoroughly dispiriting. It closely documents the horror of a staged Stalinist purge trial, yet lacks the creative energy to convey the vibrancy of terror...