Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...politicians. "A blueprint for disaster," charged the Trenton Times, arguing that the Bateman plan would raise property and sales taxes and most hurt those least able to afford it?the elderly, the unemployed and the poor. Byrne has latched onto the tax issue with uncharacteristic vehemence?and apparent political success...
...Richard soon yearned to be back in the digs. Then, in 1963, on a chance flight over Lake Natron in northern Tanzania, he spotted what looked like interesting sediment beds and, encouraged by his parents, set off to explore the area. His first expedition proved to be a success; the team he assembled found a fragment from an Australopithecus robustus. He decided to become an anthropologist...
...sediments containing the remains of complete prehistoric environments. Organizing a team of fossil hunters, Leakey established a base camp at Koobi Fora, a mound at the inboard end of a long, crocodile-infested sand spit that curves out into the lake. Then he began following his nose?with remarkable success. Turkana has yielded the richest accumulation of remnants of man and his predecessors ever found in one area...
...Marat's saga are also good in the not-quite-organized fashion of the insane. Their songs (including "Poor Old Marat" and others that Judy Collins has made famous outside the theater) and pantomimes keep the show from dragging, as they comment on the play's action, the success of the revolution, and Marat's impending murder...
Taken together "New Portraits" give a pronounced feeling for the differences between films made by women and those made by men. They show women in strong and positive roles and women who don't depend on men for personal success. They show different kinds of women living their lives. More strikingly they are deeply concerned with the sense among women for continuity of life--where you came from and where you're going. Kitchens and negliges are a matter of course here. If you can survive overuse of family pictures--which any film-maker should already know are a bore...