Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...managed to turn one of the West's chronic disadvantages, lack of water, into a means of fighting the developers. New Mexicans are now pushing for legislation that would give them the legal wrench necessary to tighten the faucet on their scarce water supply, thereby limiting expansion. Think-tank experts envision even more extreme solutions. Rand Corp. Demographer Peter Morrison believes that the Federal Government may have to adopt population-distribution policies; if not, localities may resort to residency permits and migrant entry fees to prevent being "loved to death...
Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. He invented prototypes of the submarine, the diving mask and snorkel, the airplane, the parachute, the tank and the hydraulic screw. What he did not invent, as the opening segment of CBS's five-part Life of Leonardo da Vinci amply illustrated this week, was a way of having his own story told well...
Herman Kahn's Hudson Institute is a think tank. You would imagine that they would be able to be at least five years in advance of themselves. Yet in their book The Year 2000, which was written in 1967, there was not a thing about pollution, nothing about the Club of Rome. Already that book is ancient history. So in some sense it shows the kind of bankruptcy of that sort of imagination. It's so lineal...
...this possibility seriously. Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon papers for what he feels is the good of the country; he may also have been trying to rid himself of what he sees as a damned spot. But his view is too schematic and bears the cold stamp of the think tank. His being a war criminal could well be just another option in a complex psychological scenario...
...Everybody dies," says a hustler in Body and Soul, one of the most memorable of all films about boxing. In Fat City, one of the least memorable, we watch a stifling process of human degradation symbolized by the desperate, random violence of tank-town prizefighting. Fat City is about a bunch of losers dying in spirit by slow, murderous inches. It lacks any substantial portion of compassion, however, any shred of insight to lift it above the level of a slumming expedition...