Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing, each show is stitched together from about 350 snippets of video tape. Some of them-a flash of graffiti, for example, or a mugging face-last only an eighth of a second. Executive Producer George Schlatter calls this "energy film," a technique that gives a kind of booster burst of speed to the show. Explains Dick Martin: "Nobody's going to appreciate everything on our show. But if one gag goes completely over your head, there'll be another along in a few seconds that cracks you up and leaves
...years ago when Carl was sitting at the baby grand piano inside his little white house in nearby Arlington. He was hammering out the same dissonant chord over and over in an all too obvious and painful search for yet another answer. Outside, Composer Cowell paused, listened, finally burst into Ruggles' room. "Carl," he cried out, "what in God's name are you trying to do with that chord?" Replied Ruggles: "I'm giving it the test of time." It must have passed the test...
...previous record back in 1961. That high, it turned out, was based on pretty flimsy ground and was soon followed by a rapid collapse. Wild speculation by unregulated brokerage houses, which often used customers' portfolios as collateral, was chiefly responsible for driving up prices. When the bubble burst, thousands of investors lost their life savings. Of some 1,500 Japanese securities firms, fewer than 400 survived...
Short-Lived Title. Lately, the ailing nucleus of the city has been making a remarkable recovery. A burst of new construction-gleaming office towers, bank headquarters and a handsome civic center for the arts-has rejuvenated much of the area. Over the past eight years, the city's businessmen have committed $800 million for downtown building and remodeling. By 1970, that investment will yield 9,000,000 sq. ft. of new office space, almost twice as much as was built downtown in the first 60 years of the century. In the process of rejuvenation, the old heart...
...pink bikini. The boy in white shrugged, "Well, I'll call her tomorrow," he said, and walked off. Jennifer tipped herself over, but couldn't complete the roll and had to push herself from the kayak. She came to the surface, coughing from the water she swallowed, and then burst out laughing with...