Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were very mild, very gentle sorts, quiet, often depressed, barely there, but always charming and witty. It worked very well, and I am still in awe of the iron hand with which my grandmother ruled my grandfather. The moral of this, I suppose, is that among the vast numbers of humans on the globe, an immense variety of relationships occur. But we are all of the same stuff, and we should try like hell not to hurt each other, whether we are brilliant men or brilliant women, brown-haired men or brown-haired women, or any of the other billions...
...excels at recruiting new agents: with only some exaggeration, a West German intelligence expert says, "There is not one place in the world where the KGB does not have its man." Indeed, Superspy Colonel Rudolf Abel, apprehended in New York in 1957, was found to command a vast net work of agents that ranged over the entire North American continent. Today the KGB cooperates closely with the East German Ministry for Security, which in 1972 successfully planted an agent, Günter Guillaume, as a close aide to West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Guillaume spirited NATO defense and other secrets...
...from Norway that is capable of deep ocean drilling. At the same time, Peking has asserted its sovereignty over vast reaches of the Asian continental shelf. That could mean trouble, since these claims conflict with those made by nearly all of China's neighbors, including Japan and the Philippines. Though South Korea and Taiwan have granted exploration rights in the Yellow and East China seas to several U.S. companies, including Gulf and Amoco, the U.S. Government has cautioned American companies to keep their research craft away from the disputed areas for fear that China might seize...
They contain raw material: alchemical treatises and Renaissance architectural tomes, anatomical figures and worn kachina dolls. New Hebrides masks, pulp novels, turn-of-the-century store cata logues from which Ernst cut the engravings for his haunted collages - the vast flea market of the dreaming mind, here emblematically reduced like a ship in a bottle...
Most of the exteriors were shot in Hungary, and the streets of old Budapest served for the Moscow and Petersburg of a century ago. The only missing ingredient, an important one, unfortunately, is a sense of Russian spaciousness, a feeling not so much of a country as of a vast sea of land...