Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high Platform A, beneath which oil was leaking steadily from a fissure in the ocean floor. Barges carrying 15,000 barrels of sealant were towed to the platform, where the crew pumped the plasticlike substance down into a 3,500-ft. hole in the ocean's bottom at a rate of 1,500 barrels an hour. For days, capping efforts had been stymied by high seas, and escaping oil had continued to spread out from the long-legged rig at the rate of three miles per hour, cutting a devastating swath through the water...
...want you to imagine a mountain," Steve said. "I want you to see a mountain in your mind, and then imagine you are standing at the bottom of it." He paused for a minute, and a lovely green mountain floated into the boy's mind and settled in place. "If you look carefully, you can see a cave halfway up the mountain," Steve went on. "But there is a door on the cave. As I count from one to ten, I want you to climb up the mountain to that door. One . . ." In a flash the boy stood in front...
Today, most of Stone's 3,500 salesmen memorize his sales pitch down to the last pause and wisecrack. Standard joke: "Why, we even pay off if your heart is broken." Following a technique that Stone developed, the salesmen walk through an office building from top to bottom, knocking on doors trying to sell everyone inside. The salesmen call this method "cold canvassing"; Stone predictably terms it "gold canvassing...
...what is being said." The many full-face shots build an air of intimacy between actor and audience that is especially suitable for the TV screen (though the film was also released in London last week as a feature movie). "For the first time," says Paul Rogers, who plays Bottom in a blustering, John Bullish vein, "a Shakespearean movie has been made that doesn't sacrifice the poet." The flowing iambics carry the play forward on the swells and lulls in some of Shakespeare's most exquisite lyrics...
Hollander returned the favor by coming pretty much as he was too - blue velvet jacket, white silk shirt with ascot, bell-bottom trousers and long hair. To him, that kind of dress is no mere gimmick: "I feel hypocritical in tails, it's just...