Word: chews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Michael, Coppola has bitten off more than he can chew. There are too many scenes and too many minutes in Godfather II for such a relatively straightforward story as it tells, and, while there are moments of suspense--when an ambush in a dimly lit New York bar explodes onto the street in a full-scale battle, when Michael's wife notices that the windows are open and a second later, burst after burst of gunfire destroys her bedroom--Coppola seems to have spent most of his energy on a few grand set pieces. The big party scene...
...CONSERVATION. I wonder, theoretically, if it's right that the auto industry should chew up as much raw materials as it chews up. I don't think we've done as much as we should with scrap. A lot more should be done with recycling materials...
...Yale drama school graduate, Arvin Brown was "burning to direct" when in 1965 he helped start the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Conn. And for his own professional debut in the converted warehouse in the city's food terminal, he bit off what most veterans fear to chew, O'Neill's Long Day's Journey, perhaps America's best play...
...like a small construction site, with piles of boards, bolts, rails, ties and electrical power equipment. The wires on this equipment are regularly checked lest a miner be electrocuted. Facing the wall of coal is a continuous coal mining machine called "the beast." The machine's whirling blades chew into the seam with a roaring noise like an avalanche, spewing chunks of coal back into waiting coal cars, which are equipped with robot-like "gathering arms" that channel the flow. The load is then trundled back along the tracks and automatically unloaded onto a conveyor-belt system that lifts...
...went through several sets of false teeth after smasinng ins jaw in a 1957 automobile accident. He found them all so uncomfortable and unsatisfactory that he actually took them out winle eating. Since being fitted with a mandibular staple in 1969, he has eaten everytinng, including such hard-to-chew foods as carrots...