Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those elite centers of varsity iron-pumping by no means dominate the Harvard 'health club' scene. House gyms and graduate school rooms, including a small free-weight center for Law School students, reduce the strain on the jewels of Harvard's weight-room circuit, the varsity-oriented ITT and the social...
...purity. The goals were clear-cut and indisputable, the heroes and villains easy to discern, the achievements tangible and lasting. As the documentary points out, Selma was not just a culmination but the end of an era. Soon to come were the big-city race riots, a more militant strain of student protest and a breakup of the coalition that had driven the campaign for racial equality. Eyes on the Prize recalls the days when the sheer rightness of the cause was enough...
Nevertheless, it is not as if artistic intent is never compromised in pursuit of a wider audience. Hollywood has for decades tolerated dubbing. There is much money to be made in overseas markets. Dubbing spares unlettered foreigners the strain of subtitles. For the sake of a few deutsche marks, Hollywood is quite prepared to have Gary Cooper mosey up to a bar and say, "Ein Bier, bitte." Colorization is, in principle, no more than visual dubbing for a generation that is deaf to black and white...
Pilots have beefs about the controllers. Contends Duffy: "Our pilots make calls to controllers and nobody answers. You can tell when one is under strain when his supervisor comes in and overrides him. More controllers are making errors. They are often fatigued. We just don't want to be handled by tired controllers." The basic problem, in the view of Delta Airlines Pilot Joseph Dorsey, is that "there are too many new people on both ends of that radio...
...more than his public one. Wherever he was, Ninoy turned his home into a kind of 24-hour coffee shop in which the loquacious host and his associates would thrash out tactics through the night, while Cory waited on them. The ceaseless bustle must have placed a considerable strain on the retiring patrician woman. "Cory is an introvert, Ninoy was an extrovert," says Ninoy's favorite sister, Lupita Aquino Kashiwahara. "He thrived on people. She doesn't need them...