Word: strained
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...definition, a study of the urban guerrilla as a worldwide phenomenon is bound to strain the capabilities of the most resourceful journalist. Nineteen TIME bureaus from Los Angeles to Beirut contributed to this week's cover story on the subject. Practically all the correspondents found it a frustrating assignment; primary sources tended to be underground or in jail, or in quick transit from one to the other...
Visit to India. The experimental plants were, in fact, descendants of the original strains that Borlaug had bred for his crusade against famine. Undisturbed by any scientific breeding techniques, wheat in tropical countries had evolved over the centuries into tall, thin-stemmed strains able to survive flooding and compete successfully with weeds for sunlight. But they are highly vulnerable to modern fertilizers, which cause them to become top-heavy with grain and topple over. To overcome that problem, Borlaug collected samples of a Japanese dwarf strain that had already been improved by a U.S. Agriculture Department scientist named Orville Vogel...
There is a sour bit of irony in all this. Prolonged American involvement in Southeast Asia would cause a fairly significant strain on most of the U. S. body politic. But whatever the war does to the American people cannot be compared to the incredible level of suffering which it imposes on the Vietnamese. And yet it is only to the American people, not to the Vietnamese, that the American government has to be responsible; the Americans, not the Vietnamese, are the only ones who have an influence powerful enough to force the U. S. government from its aggressive practices...
...THIS strain of change against order, of time against space, Mizoguchi's camera motions occupy a special place. They too transform the relationships that bind people, but transform them spatially and visibly, not as a cut slicing them apart and then re-confronting them in an artificial drama. People in his compositions are points set a certain way in space; an emotion sets the camera in motion and the points twist around gradually, with all the anguish of a process occurring within reality, to a new dynamic which is again immediately transformed...
Crane shots twist spatial relationships in such a way that their effect is wonderfully moving. Set within the extremely developed order of his compositions. Mizoguchi's crane shots strain the dramatic structure of his scenes to its fullest. The point is not that he uses a crane-the point is what his craning motions push against. Any rich fool can set up a crane shot. Only Mizoguchi can so stylize his shots that a crane's are back into space wrenches your heart away from the bearings on which it has rested long enough...