Word: crates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard to put much stock in the character he portrays: a Japanese Polack with a Russian accent and an Arab girl friend (Daniela Gaubert). As for Richard Widmark and George Chakiris, they manipulate their seaplane like a couple of toddlers playing oogah in the old man's crate...
...film takes on a measure of verve and dash. Best scene is the nighttime patrol when, running without lights, Kennedy's PT suddenly comes under the prow of a blacked-out Japanese destroyer and PT 109's plywood hull is sliced through like an orange crate. There is a moment of silence, then a crackling as the sea becomes molten with flaming fuel, and in the night come the terrified cries of men calling out to their buddies...
...confined to the bathroom: occupants of Manhattan's vast Washington Square Village have long complained that they can lie in bed at night and hear magazine pages being turned in the bed next door. "I know they are reading magazines," says one tenant, "because newspapers rattle more." Packing-crate partitions often reveal more than reading habits, and in many a new jerry-building, whole floors of amateur Chapman reporters dread facing one another in the elevators in the morning...
...concert hall itself has an encouraging feeling of intimacy despite the fact that its capacity approximately equals that of Boston's Symphony Hall. The concert organ is concealed behind a transparent scrim but can be illuminated for concerts. Unfortunately, the scrim itself slightly resembles the inside of a packing crate and reveals the shadowy figures of stage hands moving about in the midst of performances. It perhaps could be successfully replaced...
...Manhattan's fading Little Italy. Inside, the furnishings are spare-some benches and tables, a cupboard. But if the house lacks furniture, it does have marvels of decor. There is a room lined with towering cases of gilded bric-a-brac. In another room, shallow honeycombs of orange-crate cabinetry are filled with carefully posed objects-chair legs, a broken wheel, a bowling pin. parts of a table pedestal, a banister, some toilet seats-all gleaming goldly. The owner of this hammer-and-nails Fort Knox is Scavenger-Sculptress Louise Nevelson...