Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempt to ascribe cause or blame. The Four Hundred Blows presents an isolated slice of its hero's life, and the film comes to no set conclusions, contrary to the then-conventional practice of "packaging" the plot. Instead, Truffaut develops the poetic possibilities of his subject, calling on a wide range of visual metaphors to convey his subjective message. In addition, the scene in which the hero is interviewed by a prison psychologist introduced the so-called cinema-verite technique of prolonged interviews which populates many New Wave films...
...first nation-wide draft deferment tests will be given in May, Selective Service Director, Lewis B. Hershey said last night...
...nine councillors, joined by Cambridge's state representatives, met informally with traffic consultants hired by the city. The consultants presented their recommendation of an alternative to the Brookline-Elm St. route for the Inner Belt, the route that is favored by the state. This route cuts a wide path through Cambridge only several blocks east of Central Square...
Mayr added that the tract, which includes open fields, woods, and ponds, is an "ideal site" for such research. In addition, a wide variety of birds and over 27 species of mammals have been observed in the area...
...Dusty Theory. Taken by a camera with a wide-angle lens from about 10 ft. above a porous, pumicelike surface, the pictures showed a barren, forbidding crust, littered with jagged rocks and tiny pebbles that the Russians later revealed were as small as 1 or 2 millimeters wide. The lunar view suggested to University of Arizona Astronomer Gerald Kuiper that Luna 9 was probably resting on the floor of a small crater, that the rocks were only about a foot high, and that the horizon in the picture was actually formed by the crater's rim, apparently less than...