Word: testing
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...comprehensive ever proposed by a President. The energy package reaches from automobiles to attics and from vacuum cleaners to wellheads in an effort to end America's profligate use of energy. It is almost certain to ignite a firestorm of protest?and to provide Carter with his most difficult test as a politician and as Chief Executive. Predicts chief Carter Aide Hamilton Jordan: "This will be a measure of Carter's ability to lead the country. It is a greater test of his leadership than any other single issue...
These could be the days that determine whether Jimmy Carter will be a one-term President. This test of his capacity to lead has come quickly, invited by his own impatience and inexperience and an unrelenting world. But it is not unique...
Kopple began to make her film about the Miners for Democracy, the UMWA reform factiion that sprang up after the murder of Jock Yablonski in 1969. Instead, she found herself focusing on Harlan County and the test fight the union was waging there against Duke Power. She moved among the miners, lived with them, eventually got herself beaten up with them. But all the time her camera was rolling, and Kopple has captured incredible scenes on film. Here is Basil...
Welcome has all the earmarks of a big-budget, big studio release, and the visuals are no exception. Director of photography Dave Myers shot all the scenes in exclusively natural colors and light, and the richness and clarity of the hues are striking. For this reviewer, the acid test of a movie's cinematography and lighting effects lies in whether specific scenes linger in the memory and can be readily brought to mind as an instant association with the mere mention of the title. Welcome fills this bill of particulars admirably; look for the shot of Carradine at a piano...
...trip between cities takes about 40 minutes. Why, then, will a crowd gather on Hayden Rowe this month to risk shin splints, blisters and coronaries on the 26-mile, 385-yard run from there to Boston's Prudential Center? Because it is theirs: the Boston Marathon, an endurance test that makes a winner out of every runner who completes the course...