Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fleeting smile enlivened the face of a woman juror. Titters rippled through the courtroom when Charles Colson, an imprisoned former Nixon aide, was heard telling Convicted Watergate Burglar E. Howard Hunt not to get too specific about why he wanted hush money. "This is a serious matter," the stern Sirica scolded. "Serious to the defendants ... serious to me. There will be no more laughter...
Most of Rockefeller's gifts appear to have been motivated by his praiseworthy desire to keep able men in government. Nonetheless, private financial support of public officials is obviously open to wide abuse and to the appearance, if not the fact, of improper influence. Rockefeller will undoubtedly face stern questioning when the House Judiciary Committee holds confirmation hearings and when, as seems likely, the Senate Rules Committee recalls him for further testimony...
Reed spares precious few of his brothers and sisters. (He even offers a veiled suggestion that Angela Davis is the modern equivalent of the stern black mama figure trying to shape up her offspring in the absence of a father.) A minister named the Rev. Rookie is replaced by a Moog synthesizer; Maxwell Kasa-vubu, a button-down black literary critic, hallucinates that he is Richard Wright's illiterate murderer Bigger Thomas. Reed even brings back those veteran moochers from Amos 'n' Andy, the Kingfish and Andrew H. Brown, now trying to cash in on the street...
...Blue Angel. Perfect to contrast to the above. One of the most sensuous movies ever made. You can't hurry this picture--you have to let its pace wash over you slowly, and feel the real, physical undercurrent beneath the stern languor. Set in decadent cabaret Weimar; made in 1930 by Joseph von Sternburg. With Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings...
...addition, the U.S. could make great energy gains in its homes, offices and factories. An all-out program of tax credits for installing insulation, a 50% tax credit on investments in solar heating and cooling systems, and stern but sensible standards for limiting lighting and raising overall energy efficiency -all this could save another 775,000 bbl. a day by 1980 and 1.7 million bbl. by 1985. When this figure is added to the mass-transit potential savings, the U.S. could thus save as much as 6 million bbl. daily from the projected consumption of 19 to 20 million...