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...display, gorged with books it offers little space to read, it is half-buried in the artifacts it seeks to preserve. For every object on display, nine more gather dust in grimy warehouses. Although the museum has more than 9,000,000 books, its reading rooms hold a scant 390 chairs, are nearly always packed despite a sponsorship system that bars all but scholars from using them. Stacks are so inaccessible that the waiting time for books is now up to two hours. Despite a recent effort to put displays in natural settings, many are still lined up in "case...
...Rooks' capricious shooting schedule, Franks preserves a consistent style of juxtaposing hand-held and tripod based shots, creating, then shattering continuity in order to disorient the viewer. The camera follows Harwick into an airplane bathroom, pries closer to watch him sniff cocaine, then finds itself too close--a scant inch from his dissipated bleary-eyed face as he turns to leave the bathroom; he approaches the camera, virtually menacing the lens, and Franks cuts away to another scene. Walking toward a car, followed by the camera, Harwick drops a liquor bottle; about five seconds after the audience has forgotten...
...varied and difficult terrain in South Viet Nam, the jungled peaks and malarial valleys of the Central Highlands would seem least worth winning. Scant crops grow there, and scarcely any Vietnamese live there. The triple canopy of jungle foliage shadows the ground in a perpetual, skyless twilight. But, on the Highlands border where Laos and Cambodia meet, there is a valuable piece of real estate: a natural valley that funnels through the worst border mountains out into the gentler highland countryside rolling down to the sea. Astride the valley sits Dak To, until three weeks ago a dusty airstrip guarded...
...than Conservative Candidate Christian Glanz Jr., who was seeking 2% of the total vote in order to qualify his party for the 1968 presidential ballot and thereby qualify Alabama's George Wallace for a third-party spot. Nunn received 449,788 votes, Ward 423,189-and Glanz a scant 5,169, barely half of 1%. Thus Kentucky's vote in effect was for moderation...
...years in Congress-ten in the House and nine in the Senate-McCarthy has placed his stamp on very little legislation. To some of his colleagues, his sardonic humor is cynicism; his casualness, indifference. Though McCarthy has scant chance of winning the nomination himself, he might, by attracting a sizable antiwar and anti-Johnson vote in the primaries, focus attention on Johnson's weakness and open the way for another candidate-his friend and colleague Robert Kennedy, for example...