Word: brickely
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...This dump is an old clay pit," he says. "Used to be a brick company over on the other side. Moved up to New Hampshire. You know it's going to take twenty-five years to fill this up. That's what they tell me. Twenty-five years of dumping. I won't be around...
...They don't interest me") as a cute blonde ought to be. Home was a $15,000 brick ranch house in the Oak Forest section of town, a standard three-bedroom unit furnished with the standard new appliances from the combined incomes of her father, an oilfield-equipment salesman drawing disability pay from the Navy, and her mother, an airlines reservation clerk. But whatever it was they thought they were working for, Diana found it boredom on the installment plan...
...Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House (1909), nicknamed "the Battleship," an earth-hugging, brick masonry private house with free-running cantilevers, on Chicago's Woodlawn Avenue. Saved earlier this year from destruction, it will be handed over to the National Trust for Historic Preservation...
...make his static electric, and a blinkered grope toward the past as suspenseful as a headlong crash into the future. Maggie the Cat (played with surprising sureness by Elizabeth Taylor) is young, beautiful, childless; her hot tin roof is the marital bed no longer shared by her husband Brick (Paul Newman), a onetime college athlete now tying on the booze bag every night in search of the "click in my head." Together they have come back to Big Daddy's "28,000 of the richest acres west of the River Nile," ostensibly for a family celebration of Big Daddy...
...ruthless and contriving tyrant who has lived for 40-odd years with a woman he despises, and raised two sons only to be able to boast of a namesake. Gooper still sweats with jealousy over his brother's schoolboy athletic triumphs, and Maggie yearns pitiably for Brick's love and for the creature comforts she never knew in her youth. Catalyst for them all is Brick, whose homosexual attraction for a teammate (only hinted at in the picture) and subsequent flood of guilt over his buddy's death have led him to give...