Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earned him sips of water and ten small, banana-flavored pellets, which were delivered mechanically when he pushed the proper levers. But as the capsule approached Australia, the monitor station at Muchea on the west coast noted that it was not maintaining its proper attitude. Instead of pointing its blunt forward end steadily 34 degrees above the horizontal, it was veering erratically. The stations at Woomera, in south-central Australia, and at Hawaii, confirmed Muchea's report. Apparently one of the hydrogen-peroxide jets that controlled the capsule's attitude in space had failed to close...
Kurosawa's Shakespeare inevitably-and fortunately-involves more Kurosawa than Shakespeare. With blunt and vital irreverence the director has translated Shakespeare's words into Japanese images, Shakespeare's lords into Japanese barons. Even in Shakespeare's plot, Kurosawa has condensed detail, juggled scenes, chucked the sentimental excrescences-among them, thank heaven, the soap-operatic murder of poor little Baby Macduff. Kurosawa's intention is plainly to hack off the Gothic foliage of Shakespeare's fancy and compress his tale into that traditional form of Japanese theater known as noh. As in those vast dance...
...blunt, five-page decision issued yesterday, Superior Court Judge Lewis Goldberg decreed the novel "obscene, indecent, and impure." The Judge's decision came six weeks after the hearings in which the lawyer for Henry Miller and Grove Press, Mr. Ephraim London, had tried to show that the book was not obscene...
Lush, Be a Lady. In Conquer Your Alcoholism, Edward J. McGoldrick, billed as "Your Confidential Adviser" and actually director of the New York City Bureau of Alcoholic Therapy, is tough and blunt. "You are not sick," he snarls in Groove One. "You are a flop, a failure, a drunk." But in a companion volume called Tormented Women, the Truth About the Female Alcoholic, he becomes almost gallant, sympathetically acknowledging how difficult it must have been for his listener to buy the record. "You probably said it was for a friend. You couldn't allow even a total stranger...
...Koening Lois. "People don't pay attention to advertising. The trouble is that a lot of agency people have the idea that the public is a bunch of clods-and they write ads accordingly." Howard Gossage, whose Weiner & Gossage spread the word about Irish whisky, is even more blunt: "I don't know a first-class brain in this business who has any respect for it. Advertising is America's only native, original art form. It's the biggest, most eclectic and the lousiest...