Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nice to.") In this new world the chief hood (played by a corpulent Eugene Roche) runs a hot vehicles and appliances operation--that is to say, he's a couple of legalities removed from a used car salesman. He has neither taste nor an eye for sharp clothes; his favorite seems to be a terry-cloth jumpsuit. And where the old racketeers had bodyguards with pug noses and club-steak ears, this fellow hires a turtleneck-wearing glamour boy (John Considine) who might just as well be Lyle Waggoner. What's more, these contemporary villains have lost all sense...
...allowed to raise prices. Finally, it seems sure that the program will not relax tough environmental controls on energy use. David Freeman, 51, Schlesinger's senior aide, puts the point in a gloriously mixed metaphor: "We start out with the cornerstone of our energy policy cut from environmental cloth...
...oldest aircraft on display is Otto Lilienthal's 1894 glider, with its willow-and-bamboo frame and cotton-cloth covering. When Lilienthal died near the turn of the century, his last words were reported to be: "Sacrifices must be made." In the museum's military aviation exhibits, that sense of sacrifice is pervasive, if in a different context. The most durable warplanes are there: the Fokker, Spad XVI (Billy Mitchell's own), P-40E, B26, Spitfire, German Messerschmitt and Italian Macchi MC-202. So is the old workhorse of World War II-and beyond...
...Machinery Hall. When President Ulysses S. Grant and Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil turned the levers on May 10, 1876, a festive crowd cheered as the engine set in motion a wonderful as sortment of machines- pumping water, combing wool, spinning cotton, tearing hemp, printing newspapers, lithographing wallpaper, sewing cloth, folding envelopes, sawing logs, shaping wood, making shoes - 8,000 machines spread over 13 acres...
...rather to immerse himself in its will-to make himself its instrument and servant." The point is symbolized by an early photograph in the catalogue of Callahan at work, pointing a bellows camera at the reedy edge of Lake Huron 36 years ago. His head is hidden under the cloth; he looks like a camera-headed wading bird, patiently dabbling for nourishment. The man and the machine are one hybrid...