Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doing 102 m.p.h. Only slightly less potent was U-707, a 17-ft. cat with three 105-h.p. Chryslers, and driven by a trio of leadfoots calculated to inspire respect: Major William Knight, holder of the world air speed record (4,534 m.p.h.), Lee Taylor, holder of the water speed record (285 m.p.h.), and Craig Breedlove, the land speed record holder (600 m.p.h...
...changed the world by changing people's attitudes," says Polish Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water). "When they are born with a TV set in their room-well-you can't fool them any more." Or at least, it might be added, not in the same way. Director Richard Lester, who got his start on TV, believes that television's abrupt leap from news about Viet Nam to Corner Pyle to toothpaste ads expands people's vision. "TV is best at those sudden shifts of reality. TV, not Last Year at Marienbad, made the audience...
...esthetic evocation of the past. Yet it observes the '30s not as lived but as remembered, the perspective rippled by the years to show that there are mirages of time as well as space. The nostalgic Technicolor romanticism alters reality, distorting it as a straight stick under water appears to be bent...
...passage of time has wrought on the building indignities that Wright never foresaw. The ingenious, cantilevered foundations, which he designed to support the building on the gooey soil beneath it, proved trim enough to see the Imperial through the 1923 earthquake. But in the past four decades, as the water level has fallen, the structure has settled 3 ft. 7 in. Cracks have appeared in walls and ceilings, and postwar smog has corroded the soft green lava rock used by Wright for the building's fantastic ornamentation. Concluded one recent visitor, Novelist Anthony West: the hotel is now "hideous...
...cost of $510 million. The embankment stands 380 ft. high, is 11,000 ft. long, and holds 75 million cu. yds. of dry earth and rock. It is the world's fifth largest earth-filled dam and has the largest-capacity spillway, discharging 1.2 million cu. ft. of water per second, four times as much as Niagara Falls. Five 36-ft. tunnels drain the river; a subsidiary dike completes a 100 sq.mi. reservoir. Eventually, the powerhouse will hold ten 100,000-kw. generators to supply Pakistan's burgeoning industry...