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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter is likely to win agreement only on the principle that production of synthetic fuels should be encouraged?no international body, and no pledges of hard cash. The seven nations doubtless will exchange promises to cut oil imports and to expand production of coal and nuclear power, but not bind themselves to any specific steps to reach any of those goals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Great Energy Mess | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

Photographically, Manhattan is a film in which almost every shot is designed to expand its narrative meaning through pictorial composition. Many sequences contain shots of memorable visual beauty-never for their own sake, because the composition of the images is always subordinated to the pictorial event. The conversation between Allen and Diane Keaton in the planetarium is saturated with chiaroscuro density which can challenge, graphically, the famous "Aquarium Sequence" in Welles' Lady from Shanghai. The function of darkness and use of galactical phenomena which often dominate the stationary frame, add considerably to the philosophical implications of the Allen-Keaton interchange...

Author: By Vlada Petric, | Title: A Renaissance Of American Film Comedy | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...Woody Allen continues to nourish and expand the cinematic aspects of his work, thus proving that the comedy genre is in no way inferior to other acknowledged "artistic" and "intellectual" genres of the sound cinema, he will become not only the foremost American director, but will as well join that select circle of exceptional film actors/auteurs...

Author: By Vlada Petric, | Title: A Renaissance Of American Film Comedy | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...shed heat, the body normally begins to sweat, a process that requires the tiny blood vessels, or capillaries, in the skin to expand. But since the bather is largely submerged in hot water, the sweat cannot evaporate from the skin. Heat builds up in the body, and as the body struggles to get rid of it, more blood is diverted to the capillaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cooling It | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...opportunity for the students to get real work experience. They can work in areas of their vocational interest." Both Gibson and Maguire note that students have not yet taken full advantage of work possibilities in the community, since they tend to work in the University, but both hope to expand community employment next year...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Enter to Grow in Debt: Financial Aid at Harvard | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

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