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CINEMA 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. As a spaceship plows the galactic void, Director Stanley Kubrick searches for the meaning of life 33 years from now and turns the quest into a dazzling-and demanding-cinematic experience...
...fill the news void, local television stations increased their coverage. But it was far too episodic and fragmented to be effective. When a clash between police and Negroes occurred last May, television recorded the mob scene without adequately explaining it. Important public matters, such as the appointment of a new police commissioner who might be able to ease racial tension, were not properly aired...
...screams driven into one lightning-void...
...conventional words, a few are supplied. They are, however, often as inscrutable as the rest of the contents. In a dissertation on the virtues of silence, Writer Susan Sontag declares: "Notoriously, the sensuous, ecstatic translinguistic apprehension of the plenum can collapse in a terrible, almost instantaneous plunge into the void of negative silence." Actually, the ads that are stuffed into the box are as entertaining as anything else. "Should we also flood the Sistine Chapel," asks the Sierra Club, fighting a dam downstream from the Grand Canyon, "so tourists can get nearer the ceiling...
...appeared, improbably enough, in the Cameroons. There, while investigating a surge in charters of their crop-dusters, Britten and Norman found that the planes were being used to fill an air-travel void left by the retirement of World War II-vintage DC-3s. The partners wasted no time in starting a study of air-taxi services in all parts of the world. What they found was that the average flight was less than 50 miles. The high speed (180 m.p.h. and up) of the typical four-to-five-passenger, $70,000 executive plane then in use on most such...