Word: overview
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fundatmental weakness of the production is the script itself--it lacks plot. We get no sense of personal conflict between the two men, but rather a brief overview of their political disagreements--a topic better left th the classroom...
...conducting a battle campaign--you find the grunts, the students in the front lines....then you talk with the sergeants (grad students), then the junior officers (academic advisors). Finally, when I had my basic research in hand, I would go to the general, the president, and ask for an overview...
Church's overview of the continuing frustrations and the emerging self-confidence of homosexuals today is based on dozens of interviews by TIME correspondents with legislators, educators, executives, clergy and other articulate members of the growing "gay" minority, and on the correspondents' firsthand observation of their lifestyle, from San Francisco's Castro Street to New York City's Christopher Street, from Macon, Ga., to Mankato, Minn. In exploring the new book's findings, Ruth Galvin learned from Masters and Johnson that gays and straights have more in common than perhaps most people thought. Says...
...Auletta, former politico, now columnist for the New York Daily News and commentator for New York public television, wrote The Streets Were Paved With Gold to sort out how the self-proclaimed greatest city in the world self-destructed. His book is the best overview and analysis yet to appear of the four years of near bankruptcy and the circumstances that led to that debacle. Auletta's discussion avoids hackneyed liberal or conservative interpretations and provides convincing explanations of where the fault for New York's troubles lies...
...everything. That includes searching for pollution and Siberian dust over Borneo (which may affect the rain and winds), keeping a weather eye on cold surges (masses of low-temperature air moving rapidly down from Siberia) and sending up balloons into equatorial air currents. All the while, satellites provide an overview with hourly pictures...