Word: woodeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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American film makers, slicker and warier, searched for directness in youngsters who also had good looks. Natalie Wood, in Miracle on 34th Street, was artlessly worldly. Dean Stockwell, almost romantically handsome, gave a performance of fearless vulnerability in Down to the Sea in Ships. Stockwell had much in common with Roddy McDowall, who earlier in John Ford's How Green Was My Valley had been one of the first young actors to combine sensitivity and uncertainty without losing the basic strength of childhood. They both anticipated the dreaminess and longing of Brandon De Wilde in Shane...
Some 12,000 competitors and coaches will live two to a room in 3,540 two-and three-bedroom suites. The apartment interiors are strikingly modern in design, and sport natural-wood surfaces, tasteful wallpaper and extra-long beds. Each suite has its own kitchen, balcony and bath. Compared with Montreal, where as many as eleven athletes were crammed into a single apartment, the Moscow facility should be a paradigm of comfort. Security measures should be less obtrusive too. There will be two circles of fencing, and gates will be closely monitored, but armed soldiers will not be perched...
...conversion of biomass into energy has been increasing even without Government help. Power plants in many cities, including New York, Chicago and Milwaukee, burn garbage to produce electricity, and more and more grain, sugar cane, wood wastes and other residues are being fermented into alcohol fuels...
...energy stored in all plants and vegetation, including grain, wood and even garbage...
...cent of the United States' energy needs by the year 2000. The Project is not referring to massive, multibillion dollar power stations in space which beam electricity back to earth via microwave (a NASA pet project): rather, it is talking about solar house and hot water heating, windmills, wood burning and hydraulic power. Modeste A. Maidique, assistant professor at the Business School, writes...