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...Between, like Accident, is doused with sensual summer sunlight (Cinematographer Gerry Fisher did the superb work on both films) and haunted by time. "The past is a foreign country," says the narrator, over a shot of an English manor house. "They do things differently there." Immediately the film plunges into a splendid reconstruction of the Edwardian era, all etiquette and innuendo, cascading lace and carriages, mirrors and staircases (the last two, familiar obsessions from other Losey films). Leo Colston (Dominic Guard) is a twelve-year-old schoolboy come to pass a luxurious summer holiday with a wealthy classmate...
...Then as a great, oppressive silence fell over the spectators, Gourdin started, his spikes swishing through the air. They flashed in the sunlight and his powerful strides had carried him to the edge of the jumping pit. He had measured his stride perfectly, and he did not have to falter or shorten or lengthen it. Then he bunched his strong body together, and, as he leaped high and far, it looked as if he were a human projectile fired from some unseen and unheard...
...keep track of them anymore. For instance, who noticed the quiet transformation of the phrase "civil rights" at the close of the decade? Civil rights -a password that once symbolized a whole mass of emotions, politics. tactics and humanitarian creeds. Civil rights - a movement, a march in the sunlight, a bundle of legislative acts promising a great society. Civil rights -goodbye to Bull Conner and all that...
...oxides per cubic meter of air and 75 micrograms p.c.m. of particulates as an annual mean. Both sources emit about the same amounts of nitrogen oxides, which the rules now limit to .05 p.p.m. of air. Both also contribute to photochemical oxidants, which are formed by the action of sunlight on hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxidants. The new rules limit photochemical oxidants to .08 p.p.m. of air. All this could sharply reduce present levels of air pollution. CO levels in cities (now 25 to 40 p.p.m.), for example, would be lowered to nine p.p.m...
...infirm. More recently, paleontological examination of skeletons has suggested that Neanderthal man's stooped appearance may have been the result of disease rather than low evolutionary status. According to this theory, he was plagued by a dietary deficiency of vitamin D. This deficiency was aggravated by the diminished sunlight of the ice age, and eventually caused rickets. Now, the most detailed and sympathetic picture yet of Neanderthal man comes from extensive diggings by an American-led expedition in a mountain cave near the village of Shanidar in Iraqi Kurdistan...