Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While moderate or liberal editors and publishers hardly join in that judgment, many of them wonder whether the press has gone too far and assumed a role greater than the public is willing to tolerate. Says Publisher Marshall Field (Chicago Daily News, Sun-Times): "People feel that we've taken a license that goes beyond basic reporting. Belief [in the press] is as low as it ever has been." Editor Reg Murphy of the Atlanta Constitution surveyed the mood at the recent A.S.N.E. meeting in Atlanta and found it "extraordinarily gloomy." Murphy hardly cheered his fellow editors when he observed...
Sticks of Flame. Between the tents and Khaneh Arneba, the next encampment eight miles away, fires started by detonated mines and exploding demolition charges were eating up miles of brown, sun-withered grain and turning telephone poles into sticks of flame. A column of Israeli tanks rolled by, flags flying. The crews waved perfunctorily, unlike the withdrawal from the Suez, where the soldiers had smiled, sung and even danced as they left. In Egypt, moreover, nobody spoke of having to return...
...Angeles mystery writer, Ross MacDonald, most markedly in its use of familial trauma in the plot solution. But it is to Chandler that the movie is very deeply indebted. No film has ever succeeded quite so well as Chinatown in conveying the ambience of Los Angeles before the war-sun-kissed, seedy and easy. The city was a central metaphor for Chandler, and it is brought alive here by Polanski and his collaborators, Production Designer Richard Sylbert and Costume Designer Anthea Sylbert. The film was photographed by John Alonzo in subdued, warm hues that give the effect of time...
...debut in five cities, beginning a five-month season of midweek games. That odd, extended schedule will not be the league's only novelty. Determined to upstage the N.F.L., the W.F.L. will offer everything from singular team names (among them the Chicago Fire and the Southern California Sun) to sudden death overtime, two-point conversions and other rules designed to put some added razzle-dazzle into the game...
Indeed, Shakespeare's themes remain as valid in the epoch of Henry K. as they were in that of Henry V. The vanished English world, like this one, was beset with crises. Scientists had just proved that the sun no longer orbited the earth; skepticism had been imported wholesale from Montaigne's France; religious wars had undermined faith...