Word: belled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Losers, the second play, a middle-aged carpenter goes calling on a lady (Anna Manahan) with an outsize heart and a waist to match. Upstairs, her invalid mother sits clutching the bedclothes about her like a winding sheet, praying fanatically to St. Philomena, ringing a huge bell whenever the couple begin a furtive smooch. Marriage only makes things worse-until one day Carney spies a traumatic headline. Roaring drunk, he announces to the old crone that the Pope has quashed the cult of St. Philomena. Carney deposes a statue of the saint from its altar, insults his wife, and climbs...
People working for communications and science-oriented companies, by contrast, usually dress with more of a flourish, especially if they hold down creative jobs. Like other women at Manhattan's freewheeling Jack Tinker ad agency, Commercial Producer Magi Durham likes to wear bell-bottomed trousers and men's sport shirts to the office. Her bearded husband Guy, associate creative director of Daniel & Charles ad agency, sometimes goes to work in blue jeans, other times in Edwardian suits and wide, polka-dot ties. Says Magi admiringly: "He swings on two lengths of the pendulum...
While chasing a grizzly bear one day in 1847, Explorer-Surveyor William Bell Elliott blundered into a canyon that looked to him like "the gates of Hell." Huge, spiraling columns of steam hissed out of the ground; the earth trembled beneath his feet. "The Geysers," as he named the hill-rimmed valley 85 miles north of San Francisco, is as awesome as ever. But its frightening bursts of steam are now being harnessed. The canyon is the site of the first commercial geothermal-power plant in the U.S., and the installation has paid off so handsomely in eight years...
...there, recorded with droll candor and naive precision. The wonder is that this bewitching pageant, the hit of the fair, is contained in a single building in Las Plazas del Mundo. In fact, "The Magic of a People" is a human comedy on the scale of Tinker Bell. Its 41 tableaux were composed by U.S. Architect-Designer Alexander Girard, who used 8,000 Latin American dolls and folk figurines from his huge collection (see color pages...
Such an incident is less likely now than it used to be (a recent Chevy commercial actually mentioned Ford by name). But it still remains indicative of a certain way of thinking by sponsors. With the exception of a few enlightened companies-among them Xerox, Hallmark, Bell Telephone and Western Electric-most advertisers still prefer to avoid controversial or specialinterest programs, and are happily led to the kind of show that provides the best frame for a sales pitch. Sometimes the frame and the picture merge completely, as when Clairol builds a beauty pageant around its commercials...