Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need birth control for automobiles now. A good bicycle can take a healthy urbanite on many of his local jaunts with no hydrocarbon emissions and only minuscule demands for material and road space. He gets economical transportation and an exercise program in the bargain. I will believe that the environment is a popular cause in the U.S. when the talkers get out of their cars and begin to ride bikes...
...store will make way for a terminal in Washington's new subway system; but that is not what killed it. Such shops are simply no longer profitable. Books require space that is more and more costly in downtown buildings. The choice out-of-print and rare books are being absorbed by new colleges and universities, especially since tax laws now make it more profitable for collectors to donate their libraries to institutions than to sell them. Fewer Americans collect books now, and more and more often they get them from book clubs, or buy paperbacks...
...ordinary Soviet citizen, the U.S. is a country that, as Novelist Konstantin Simonov recently wrote in Pravda, "willy-nilly occupies a vast amount of space in our consciousness." There are only a few ways, however, in which Russians can satisfy their hunger for information about American lifestyles firsthand: examining the few consumer products available in hard-currency shops, attending occasional educational fairs sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency, and thumbing through the cultural exchange magazine Amerika, which is popular despite a limited circulation of 55,000. The vast majority of reports about the U.S. appear in the Soviet Union...
Child's Play. "We were talking," sing the Beatles, "about the space between us all," an anthem that might stand as a succinct statement of Antonioni's major obsession. But here, that space has become a void...
...Cobb says that, with respect to the "larger community." Boston's hospitals already contain more in-patient beds than the entire New England region needs. "The Affiliated has more research space in relation to delivery of service than can be justified," said Cobb...