Word: brute
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...color slide show at the court at Tsarskoe Selo, Prokudin-Gorskii gained an imperial commission to record the art and people of the Russian Empire. He traveled widely in a private railroad car outfitted with a darkroom. His pictures are no Walker Evans tour of Russia's huge brute poverty. In the warmly glowing but primitive colors of his still rudimentary art form, Prokudin-Gorskii celebrated the village life and gilded ecclesiastical magnificence of a Mother Russia that Tsar Nicholas imagined would remain unchanged forever...
...friend Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert), who works as a prostitute and has a short session with Paul. But they are not "real people." They are figures in the desolate landscape of Godard's mind. They have materialized to illustrate his deepest, bleakest conception of man and woman: the childish brute and the soul survivor...
...acre spread in the Santa Ynez Mountains, north of Santa Barbara, Reagan is a man transformed, serene, under no compulsion to entertain. He shows off the fences that he and the hired man, Lee Clearwater, put up together. He displays his black thoroughbred, Little Man, a handsome brute that knows its master. From about 30 yds. away the horse responds to Reagan's call, trotting up for a pat on the nose and a piece of carrot...
...Soviets will undoubtedly make an all-out effort to tap their hard-to-get reserves. It remains to be seen, though, whether the country can accomplish the job in time to avert serious shortages. Concludes Jack Ray, a Tenneco petroleum specialist who is often in the Soviet Union: "With brute strength and will power they'll muddle through, just as they always...
...nonmilitary areas, the Soviet scientific record is much easier to evaluate. Moscow may well be the world's capital of theoretical mathematics, in part because the Soviets lack the computers that enable Westerners to solve complex problems by brute force "number crunching." Says Yale Physicist D. Allan Bromley: "We've become lazy because of our digital computers. The Soviets don't have easy access to good computers; they do a lot more analytic mathematics in their heads." The Soviets are also strong in other "blackboard" sciences, like astrophysics and cosmology, where absence of up-to-date instrumentation...