Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grin, and said, What's the matter, Doc? Why you feel lousy? I looked with my two microscopic lenses into his eyes. I could see every line, yellow spider webs, red network of veins gleaming out of me, I said, John I'm afraid of you. His eyes got bigger, then he began to laugh. I could look inside his mouth, swollen red tissues, gums, tongue, throat. I was prepared to be swallowed. Then I heard him say, Well that's funny Doc, 'cause I'm afraid of you. We were both smiling at this point, learning forward...
...stupidity of Targets' distribution has received a lot of press coverage over the last few months, undeservedly I think, since the film itself is every bit as perversely eclectic as its marketing. The camera pulls back to a full shot of a family dinner, and Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life is recreated; Karloff's monologue recalls Welles' in Mr. Arkadin as surely as we recognize Strangers On A Train when the sniper's ammunition falls just out of reach (shades of Bruno and the cigarette lighter...
...aims to reduce the number of European farmers within the next decade from 10 million to 5,000,000. He suggests that governments use financial incentives to induce old farmers to retire early and to voluntarily sell their farms to neighbors. That would help to meld tiny plots into bigger, more efficient "modern farm units...
...early 1960s, when the two sides began girding for a bigger conflict, Saigon refused to allow the ICC to see the manifests of incoming aircraft (loaded with U.S. advisers and equipment). At the same time, Hanoi kept the commissioners from inspecting Haiphong Harbor. "The People's Army of [North] Viet Nam," said an ICC report at the time, "expressed its inability, despite its best efforts, to provide a boat with a suitable outboard motor...
...retailers have any hope for a decline in shoplifting. One Los Angeles department-store executive says, "We'll go on having more and bigger stores-and more opportunities for the person who wants to steal. We just can't have enough security men and clerks. You reach the point where the cost of employing them is prohibitive." Owners shudder at the thought of what the problem may be like when youngsters, who are breaking in today with imaginative petty thievery, grow up and develop an even greater appetite for goods...