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...Saturday's quarterfinal match, the Crimson ace scored a victory over the number four seed, Craig Burbage, in tense 21-9 and 21-14 contests. The glass exhibit court was an unfamiliar setting for Acosta, and he adjusted well despite the problems with bounce and concentration lapses that these courts create...
...fifth of the 3 million residents of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) are unemployed. Conceding widespread mismanagement of industry and agriculture, Nhan Dan explained: "In the long struggles against imperialism, we became well versed in political and armed struggles and skilled in organizing major battles. But we are still unfamiliar with the organization of large-scale production and business...
...confusion that followed, revolutionary forces entered police armories and military barracks and seized weapons. Soon thousands of civilians, including teen-agers and even children, were armed with machine guns, rifles and handguns. Dozens were killed as they fumbled with unfamiliar clips and bolts. Zealous militants set up classes in weaponry at Tehran University. Captured army trucks filled with newly armed youths went careening through the city. When a woman supervisor of a Tehran orphanage told her young charges to get rid of their guns before they got hurt, one boy snapped, "Why should we hand them over to the mullahs...
...drawings by Dorothea Rockburne, with their spare geometry of arc and line appearing through superimposed translucencies of paper−the product, if not of passionate invention, at least of rigorously organized taste. The problem with work of this kind is not that it is in some way provocative or unfamiliar, but the reverse: its very reticence, its excessive care about its own limits, unintentionally becomes a form of surrender. There is very little here that was not done better, and under the stress of a more vivid necessity, in Europe and in Russia 50 years ago. It is all footnote...
Rose's technique demonstrates two methods probably unfamiliar to the non-animator. She has drawn herself into the movie but her own portrait in the movie has an almost photographic quality while the characters are obviously hand-drawn. In fact, it is only when she passes her pencil over her face and becomes similar in style to her characters that her self-portrait begins. Until then, she has taken advantage of a trick called "rotoscoping", a painstaking process which involves tracing the projection of live-action footage, frame by frame, onto paper laid over frosted glass. The result...