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Critics of the Club of Rome report insist that exponential growth is also possible in the technology that enables society to utilize new resources, wring more food from the land and curb pollution. In the resources field, some experts sketch this scenario: long before resources run out, scarcities would force price boosts. The expense would prod industrialists and consumers to substitute one material for another, develop recycling techniques to use existing supplies more efficiently, and redouble efforts to find ways of using materials-for example, oil-bearing shale-that were previously uneconomic or technically impossible to exploit. Before long, commercial...
...from McBain's unnamed megalopolis to Boston for reasons that have little to do with milieu; the producers found it too expensive to shoot the film in New York. The shabby station house is cluttered with a couple of painters from whom Director Colla is grimly determined to wring laughs. As the cops struggle to do their duty, the painters contrive to get in the way whenever possible, straddling desks with stepladders and dropping green globules of paint on whoever happens to be passing below...
Huston cannot wring a moment of pathos out of any of this, although there are fleeting moments of perception, as when a manager carelessly tosses a pair of newly bloodied trunks to another fighter, or when Tully stands in front of the mirror trying on some seedy clothes belonging to his girl's former lover. Hus ton also apparently abandoned his ac tors. Keach looks far too intelligent for the part. Although he does many tech nical things splendidly, he lacks emo tional force. Bridges, who was fine in The Last Picture Show, is at loose ends here...
...feast, a torn newspaper had a new career as a lace tablecloth. There have been more ambitious silent comedies than Chaplin's-Buster Keaton's The General combined yocks with the verisimilitude of Mathew Brady photographs; Harold Lloyd's and Ben Turpin's movies could wring as many laughs from an audience. But no one ever touched Chaplin's mute grace; no one ever approached the lyricism of his Eternal Immigrant lost in a country that would never be his. No one ever implied a comic past that reached back through civilization to Pan himself...
...upperclassmen didn't share Baughman's enthusiasm. Some had a wait and see attitude, but many were upset that Merritt hadn't gotten the job and had visions of Gambril as a crew-cut, marine drill sergeant who would wring a national championship out of Harvard if it killed them all. Gambril felt this hostility, and in his first appearance before the swimmers last May 17 he treaded softly, was well-spoken, and let the team know that radical changes weren't in the planning stages: no one would be cut, twice a day practices would not be required...