Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called New Wave has shown us the sometimes ugly reality of life and its environments. It has been able, at long last, to supersede the Hollywood glamorization of life. Let us hope also that your fine cover story [Sept. 20] will stimulate a new interest in the cinema, not only for its own sake but as an alternative to the slick, stifling and vacuous "entertainment" that constitutes so much of television's program offerings...
...Young people today are more realistic and serious than Hollywood's masters of celluloid banality are willing to believe. We do not want to escape into a euphoric dreamland, but want to face life as it is. Unless Hollywood realizes this fact, the New Wave artists who can communicate reality, and communicate it meaningfully, may well sound Hollywood's death knell...
Alarmed by the growing wave of nationalization of French-owned property, the government of Charles de Gaulle last week demanded a new round of diplomatic talks with Algeria. France's complaint: Premier Ahmed ben Bella's headlong plunge into socialism is in serious violation of the 1962 Evian ac cords, which granted Algeria independence. At a National Assembly budget hearing, Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing hinted that French aid to Algeria might be slashed by amounts equal to "compensation that would be due French citizens for nationalizations or spoliations...
...statements touched off a wave of alarmed discussion in the Houses, though many students refused to believe that stories carrying the dean's remarke were of substance...
...mode-of operation was not tested during the Sept. 6 flight. In this mode the 40 lb. gold-plated box that holds the electronic equipment will scan up-and-down and across the solar disc in order to pick up an entire image of the sun at these short wave-lengths. Scientists expect that these ultraviolet "pictures" of the sun will help them better understand chromospheric solar flares...