Word: lining
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Motel automatically rises to the level of theatre when Siobhan McKenna speaks or moves or even stands in her contrapposto fashion, but against the cliche of line, improbability of story, and a pseudo-realism of cursing, bedroom scenes, and drunkenness, which make the characters less than two dimensional, she cannot possibly attain her usual brilliance...
...realization that, despite the steel strike, 1959 was a good auto year. Total output was 5,588,733 cars, a 32% gain over the 4,244,045 in 1958. Another cause of optimism was the depleted state of inventories. Unsold new cars in showrooms or in the supply line hit 976,390 on Aug. 1, but with the auto shutdowns the inventory dropped to 401,427 in December, the lowest total for the month in three years...
...Busy Line. In Indianapolis, charged with burglary when police caught him taking a phone apart with hammer, screw driver, mallet and can opener, James H. Coleman explained: "I was just trying to recover a dime I lost...
...uses electron beams to weld, mill and drill hair-fine holes in the hardest known materials, e.g., quartz, tungsten, zirconium. An electron gun fires beams that boost the temperature on the surface of the material up to 11,000° F. ; it can cut 100 holes in a straight line across a pinhead, drill a sapphire watch bearing in six seconds, weld a tough nu clear reactor core. Lease price: about $25,000 a year...
...considerable skill is that she knows very well how to write about men; most of the book is seen from a wholly masculine viewpoint. Particularly effective is a midnight episode in which timorous strikers march out to meet a force of equally fearful police. The book's best line is given to a striker who, irritated at politicking women, mimics the old gag: "As we married women unfortunately know, there are certain aspects of marriage at which a gentlewoman shudders, but, ladies, I find that it is possible to live out these times if one sets...