Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solids the natural penumbras of cast shadows, like a cape sloping from the figure's shoulders. Several years after Rodin had visited his studio and written Rosso that he was "struck by a wild admiration for you," the older sculptor employed the technique in his monumental Balzac, whose bulk heaves backwards out of solid shadow like an immense startled walrus...
...world has increased tenfold, from 4,400,000 tons to 45 million tons; by 1970, the catch is expected to equal 61 million tons. More than 200 countries send fishing boats to sea to help feed their populations, and 48 of these countries account for the great bulk of the world's fish catch, amounting to more than $3 billion worth a year. There are 4,967,000 commercial fishermen at work, and in the U.S. alone well over half a million people are employed in fishing and related fields-cleaning, canning, packing, distributing. But fishing ranks...
...merchants of Central Square cater to the fundamental needs of life. Their stores, almost uniformly undistinguished, peddle the usual brands of food, clothing, furniture, and not a great deal else. Harvard people, as a rule, buy the bulk of their clothes at home and have their other necessities -- food, shelter -- provided for them by the University. So most of the things they buy in Harvard Square are, roughly speaking, luxuries. There are tobacconists, banks, bookstores, sandal shops, motorcycle dealers and bookstores...
...before he shared that view and began to think of Thornton as an eventual TIME cover subject. His nearly three years of watching the dramatic progress of Tex Thornton and Litton Industries, plus long interviews with the industrialist on horseback trips through the mountains outside Los Angeles, provided the bulk of the material for Writer Everett Martin and Senior Editor Edward L. Jamieson in putting together this week's cover story on one of the most remarkable executives in the world...
...Rehearsal is a play-within-a-play. The time is now, although the count and keeper of an 18th century chateau is rehearsing his costumed entourage in an 18th century comedy by Marivaux. The bulk of his cast is a very aristocratic, very French menage a quatre: the count (Keith Mitchell) and his mistress, the countess (Coral Browne) and her lover. Another actor is the count's longtime friend (Alan Badel), a professional womanizer sardonically named Hero. According to the code of this set, the only liaison dangereuse is with a person outside one's own class...