Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only Lithgow seems to be straining at the restrictions. His fits, his rage, his fear, his humor, demanded a bigger stage. It may be, too, that Lithgow hasn't worked out his interpretation of the part completely. Before the murder of Duncan he is too fearful; his ambition is not quite convincing. After that he alternates between a derisive irony and an unhinged fury that don't seem completely related...
Such is Mann's performance-and such is Johnson's impression of it-that the hierarchy students already are wondering if there might not be even bigger and better jobs awaiting...
Effects of the strike will linger for weeks. When the I.L.A. struck for 34 days two years ago, it took a month to clear up the log jam of freight in New York. This time, said port officials, the pile-up is so much bigger-dozens of ships, unable to find berth space, have been anchored in the harbor-that eight weeks may be required to clear it away...
...Americans have ever seen one, but the videotape recorder is playing a steadily bigger part in their lives. It is a device that records and stores images and sounds on magnetic tape and plays them back immediately-or hours or years later. About a third of the shows on TV are so recorded. American Airlines and Pan American use videotape for their in-flight entertainment. The New York Telephone Co. helps train its salesmen by videotaping them during practice sessions and showing them playbacks of their mistakes. Yonkers Raceway uses the videotape to judge photo finishes. Many schools have begun...
...supersonic fighters, it will order about 150 F-4 Phantoms from McDonnell Aircraft. While the decision will add to Britain's worrisome balance of payments deficit, Prime Minister Harold Wilson estimated that it will save $840 million over the next ten years. Wilson postponed an even bigger decision: whether to scrap development of the British TSR-2 strike bomber in favor of General Dynamics' F-111 (originally TFX) fighter. But he grumbled loudly at the "prodigious" cost of the British plane -as much as a prewar battleship...