Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thomas Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic, and a charming first act in which Moira (The Red Shoes] Shearer dances as Olympia, the lifelike doll, the bulk of the picture is slow, obscure and pretentious. The script and direction, which borrow from Dali, Cocteau and Cecil B. DeMille, compound the vague symbolism of the Offenbach opera, leave the story line frayed and dangling. Whenever they are audible in the upper operatic range, the English lyrics sound banal. And the much-touted spectacle of Tales of Hoffmann's settings and costumes seems overripe and ostentatious enough to pass for a Hollywood...
...shells hurled by U.N. artillery from the south bank of the Han. The Bun Chon shopping district, not badly mauled last autumn, was now flattened. Ambassador John J. Muccio's official residence had taken two more direct hits. The great red- painted, brass-studded gates of the embassy compound were leveled and buried in a welter of rubble. None of the utilities was operating. Streetcar and light wires dangled from poles. A few women dipped water from manholes in gourds fastened to long poles. The capitol building, which the Reds had fired last autumn in a senseless...
Author Thomas gives concise, thoughtful sketches of half a dozen top Tibetan officials, the hard core of the hardest theocracy in the world. The sketches compose what may be one of the last close-ups of a strange ruling class, compound of enlightenment and cruelty, high spirituality and human self-seeking. The author plays some of his characters for discreet laughs -as when a high lama muses on the possible numbers of unrecognized reincarnations of the Buddha. "For instance," he reminded his guests, "take your own President-undoubtedly he is a living Buddha...
...under water as easily as above it. Called the Eager Beaver, the vehicle is a big brother of the submersible jeep (TIME, May 15). Its engine breathes and exhausts through vertical snorkel tubes like a latest-type submarine. Its wiring system is completely covered with a silicone-rubber compound that repels water. Tight oil seals keep water out of all engine openings...
...portion of human blood, is better. It contains protein molecules of a definite size and shape that keep it from leaking out of the blood vessels. An emergency plasma substitute needs some harmless substance with the same sort of molecules. Several such substances, including gelatin, Dextran (a complex sugarlike compound) and PVP (polyvinyl pyrrolidone), a synthetic made from acetylene, do the job to some extent, but none is both plentiful and entirely satisfactory. Okra for Shock. One new idea is an extract of the slippery vegetable, okra. Dr. Hiram B. Benjamin of Marquette Medical School, Milwaukee, discovered more or less...