Word: complex
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...clergymen. Contrarily, it is often the lack of sexual involvement-in terms of marital tension and divorce-that triggers the minister's move. On the surface, this seems to back up Pope Paul's present position on celibacy. But as you point out, the problem is more complex than that...
Rooting out illegal dealing in heroin poses vastly complex problems. The heroin market is enormously profitable, and drying up the sources of supply involves an incredible tangle of such fractious forces as foreign governments and the U.S.'s own Cosa Nostra...
Died. Daniel Comstock, 86, M.l.T. physicist who helped Engineer Herbert Kalmus develop the Technicolor process for making color movies; in Concord, Mass. Though they began work in 1914, it took Comstock and Kalmus more than six years to develop their complex color process; even then, their first commercial film, a 1922 feature starring Anna May Wong, was at best blurry and unpromising. It was not until 1932, seven years after Comstock had left the partnership to develop a color process for still photography, that Technicolor came into its own as a commercial success...
Rent control greatly aggravates the abandonment problem in New York City, but it does not explain why houses are abandoned in other cities that have no controls. The reasons are complex. Many landlords took their profits years ago without maintaining their buildings, and the massive repairs needed now are beyond their means. As tenants become more militant and prod city authorities into stricter enforcement of housing codes, landlords see their profits dwindling and their properties tied up in red tape. Says former Slumlord Murray Talenfeld, who now lectures on real estate at the University of Pittsburgh: "Pretty soon the slumlord...
Antonioni is a sincete man, and when he says the hope of the world lies with young American revolutionaries, he probably means it. His complex response to the nascent revolutionary movement is cheapened by a desire to convince YOUTH he's on their side. The true merit of Zabriskie Point lies in the way Antonioni uses his commitment to Youth and The Movement to explore a set of typical characteristics of the country, both urban and natural. It's important that we respect the man enough to know that, in the city scenes, he offers more than the simple-minded...