Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Misbranding Misdemeanor. The range of phony drugs is broad-tranquilizers, sedatives, hormones, heart stimulants, diuretics, antibiotics, drugs to lower blood pressure, asthma and arthritis remedies, injectable liquids such as Vitamin B12. Profits can be staggering: genuine crystalline B12, for example, costs $8,000 an ounce. The risks are relatively minor...
This was the broad planning calculus for Cambridge. But for the DPW, the issues were somewhat different. Since the Cambridge Planning Board's endorsement of the Brookline-Elm St. route, the DPW had slowly moved to adopt it as its own. Independent developments had made a Lee St. route much more difficult. And compared with the other possibilities further to the East, Brookline-Elm appeared to be superior in terms of locations and traffic service. In 1962, consultants to the department recommended Brookline-Elm, and everyone in the city knew that the DPW agreed with the recommendation...
...sensitive and finely shaded; in passages of Beethoven and Saint-Saens she showed grit and fire as well. Pinky, tapping his feet and swaying into a sort of golfer's follow-through, plunged with intuitive flair and gusto into music by Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart and Tchaikovsky, and his broad, compelling tone filled up the hall...
...have been given to the Music Center and County Museum of Art by such companies as Rexall, Northrop, and Pacific Telephone & Telegraph. The Houston Symphony is supported by oil companies, but the gifts have not been Texas-size. Theater Atlanta, in Atlanta, Ga., does not credit business with its broad-base support, but can count on getting about $150,000 from businessmen...
With luck, The Happening might have happened to be a passable picture. But Director Elliot Silverstein, forgetting everything he learned on Cat Ballou, makes his players move with galvanic gestures and broad grimaces that would be too gross for a marionette show. Moreover, the script's idea of wit consists of having George Maharis, as one of the bums, end most of his sentences in the same way: "Bam! Et cetera." "We're all in this together. Et cetera...