Word: successful
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...Winnie the Pooh," a musical, was an immediate success both with children and adults, but Rubins is somewhat skeptical of his other children's works--"Alice in the Wonderland of Pooh" and a kids' ecology play. "They were sort of tacky," he admits...
...object of the battle is to prevent the disease from spreading by removal of the heavily-diseased elms and treatment of less diseased and certain specimen trees. But since the success of the treatment is erratic and the affliction is so widespread in New England, the removed trees will be replaced not by other elms, but by varieties of oaks and locusts...
Despite the masterful technique and the excellence of the performances, Wedding contains its share of flaws, important flaws that impede the film's success. In terms of the story-line, in terms of figuring out movies that translate easily into real-life experience, too many details are too hard to devine. The most disquieting shortcoming is in the way the movie deals with the relationships between people. In a film that is so richly textured, there is a surprising lack of feeling to personal interactions. For instance, it is never really clear what stuff the passion of the Audran-Piccoli...
True, the nature of the American press is confusing. It is a profitmaking enterprise, but it is not judged chiefly by commercial success. It performs a public service, but it is neither regulated nor licensed. Journalists have considerable power to help or hurt, but there is no code, no professional association to judge their performance. Paradoxical though all this may appear, it simply means that the American press is free-and would lose all its value to the country if it were otherwise...
...person awake but relaxed). These are electronically converted into sounds, which are fed into each ear. The effect, says Ornstein, "is to allow the person to hear tones varying with the activity of each hemisphere." The subject can then attempt to concentrate with one hemisphere and test his success by the relative volume of tones he hears. Thus Ornstein is testing one of his theses: that the practices of ancient esoteric traditions, like the development of intuition, can be enhanced by modern technology. We should not, he warns, be limited by what we believe is possible...