Word: shop
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Hanna-Barbera shop is efficient but unconventional. Hanna and Barbera work harder and longer than anyone else. Hanna is the timer, who computes the mathematical intricacies of matching dialogue to action and budgeting the exact number of frames necessary to build each joke and each dissolve. Barbera, who can draw almost as fast as he can talk, does the planning-stage sketch work, can create a fully plotted storyboard (a sort of cartoon outline with dialogue) in five hours...
...professions and trades are full of abuses. Qualifying exams for licenses and permits are often run unfairly by those already in the closed circle, and even those candidates who pass must frequently buy their way in. The bakers run a tight, tough trade association, and in preserving the "little shop'' also perpetuate obsolescent, often unhygienic baking methods. The report recommends the introduction of large-scale industrial baking, and real competition in bread pricing...
...life in the seaport of Ostend, where he was born in 1860. His father, raised in England and Belgium, and Belgian mother indulged him shamelessly. He lasted exactly two years in school, lived in a world of fairy tales, nightmares, the fascinating clutter of his parents' curio shop and an attic that was "full of horrible spiders, shells, old clothing the color of rust and blood, red and white corals, monkeys, turtles, dried mermaids and stuffed Chinamen...
...been estab- lished in Ghana, Guinea, the Sudan, Nigeria, and in the Mali federation and Cameroon, where Communist parties and Red guerrillas (who had made earlier Moscow pilgrimages) already existed. Within two days after the Congo became independent last June, five East German "trade union" adVisers were setting up shop in Leopoldville...
...struggle to observe palace protocol, feels that Michiko is "working too hard" in her efforts to live up to her role. Suga advises Michiko to "relax," helps her in her many tasks. Most recently, Suga has been buzzing all over Tokyo in her Datsun Bluebird, a Japanese compact, to shop for Michiko's forthcoming U.S. trip. One of last week's purchases: a pair of shoes...