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Though there is no way to duck the impact of the shortages, it can be softened. Last week heating oil came under the Government's nationwide allocation plan to distribute fuel more equitably among and within the states. Propane has been subject to allocation for more than a month, though gasoline and crude oil are still exempt...
...from beginning to end, with no telltale shift in tone of voice. Inflections can now be modified with a device known as a variable-speed constant-pitch tape recorder. "When we increased the speed in the past," says Goldberg, "we increased the pitch too. The voice sounded like Donald Duck's. Now we can pick up or slow down without changing the pitch." Background noise can be simulated by playing a second tape behind the voice tape. Thus, if in the original tapes, doors are slamming, buzzers buzzing, asthmatics wheezing or pipes clinking against ashtrays, all of these sounds...
Besides dampening the nightly revelry of Ramadan, the war has affected Cairo in other ways. Street life comes to a halt during the infrequent alerts, as the people duck into air-raid shelters. Thanks to the war, Cairenes are paying more for food and for bus and train fares, driving their cars less because of gasoline rationing, and eating less meat. With the opening of Cairo's universities delayed, many of the 130,000 students have entered the army or the civil defense force. Crowds form in front of the military hospital on Roda Island in the Nile River...
...writer on either side was able to find any satisfactory meaning in the war; no one could even make it an adequate historical metaphor. Aaron suggests that this lack of meaning comes out of the constraints of American literary conventions in the 19th century; not only did writers duck the issue of race, but also the experience of the common...
...earlier work in a steady process of self-cannibalization that increases to the extent that the early Disney is seen as high art. The animals get cuter and more anthropomorphic, the forest glade more compulsively spotless, the characters blander; and having deprived Mickey of his rattishness, Donald Duck of his foul and treacherous temper, the Disney studio had no qualms about ruining Alice in Wonderland or Kipling's Jungle Book for the kids as well. Yet within the natural bounds of his style, especially up to the late '30s and his masterpiece Pinocchio, Disney repeatedly pulled sequences...