Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with your statement only seven weeks ago [Aug. 26] in announcing my nomination as Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth: "An expert on medical ethics, he frowns on contraception, points to the low birth rale among Jews, and fears that Judaism may some day vanish entirely." Both statements are wide of the mark and grossly misleading, written without consulting me or carefully reading my writings on the subject. In fact, Jewish law sanctions recourse to contraceptive devices only for grave medical reasons in individual cases, and I have never ruled differently...
...average time it takes a strong defensive lineman to penetrate a passer's protective pocket. When he got his time down to 3½ sec., he began trying for 3 sec. Then Terry practiced varying the speed of his spiral: "When a man is wide open," he explained, "there is no sense barreling it in there. But when the defensive man is close enough to grab the ball, you can't allow for any floaters." He also memorized Seymour's habits, the timing of his cuts and fakes, so perfectly that he could say: "I can almost...
...revolving moon brings lunar dawn, and temperatures rise quickly. The meteorites give up their stored energy in the form of visible light. Thus, Sun suggests, in a strip less than 100 miles wide alongside the lunar terminator-the line that divides the moon's areas of day and night-the moon emits light of its own, which may be almost as intense as its reflected sunlight...
...grandfather had sent him into farming "to die," and then cheated him out of a larger fortune. Thompson suggests that this notion was typical of Frost's self-indulgent "mythmaking," a compulsion to see himself as a hero battling against insuperable odds. This particular fancy gained a wide audience when Frost went to England in 1912 and published two collections of poems. It was Ezra Pound who, in his review of A Boy's Will, launched the poet and the myth by singling out In Neglect, a five-line verse that begins, "They leave...
...always cuts to closeups when he needs dramatic intensity, a standard TV technique for "grabbing" the audience. Although close-ups can be an extremely effective dramatic device (see Hitchcock's Sabotage at Harvard Film Studies this fall), they are rarely as effective when the film is in Panavision, a wide-screen process with a 1 to 2.5 screen ratio. Wide-screen has plagued directors for more than a decade; Fritz Lang says it's only good for filming "snakes and funerals," and Hitchcock doesn't like it because you can "always trim the sides off." In any case, TV filming...