Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is the earliest time Chrysler can expect to make money from the new generation of front-wheel-drive compact cars now being developed by President Lee lacocca, who will replace Riccardo as chief executive by this year...
...technology has produced cameras that are compact and need no extra light; court rules limit their number and location. Perhaps just as important, people have become accustomed to the pervasiveness of TV. Studies in several states show little evidence that cameras affect jurors or witnesses. At the Bundy trial last week two jurors were blasé enough to fall asleep-on-camera...
...evident concern for pictorial arrangement executed in a manner that enhances dramatic conflict, by either equilibrium or disharmony in the distribution of white and dark areas over the screen. Often the shot is divided into two equal segments-one occupied by close-ups of the characters, the other compact with decorative objects (sculptures, pictures, ironwork and flashing neons), or architectural detail (walls, windows, panels and storefronts). In these moments the camera often remains stationary while the actors and actresses perform and move within the flat surface of the image, creating a mise-en-frame (which is the cinematic equivalent...
Tippett's score-dense, compact, intricate-rumbles darkly with violence and glistens with unexpected color. The choral scenes capture the shout of the mob. The solo lines sometimes soar in daring melismas, sometimes settle into softly swooping lyricism...
...sheets at a few pennies more. By making quantity and quality alone the basis for purchases, and thus excluding the social and moral issues users care about, the University has gone far to repress "the reasoned expression of ideas and arguments." As you say, "universities that violate this social compact do so at their peril...