Word: cools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standing behind his towering welded shields, César now philosophically observes all Gaul at his feet. The only one who seems to have any doubts is César himself. When passion is spent and the iron is cool, he views his own works with sobering detachment. Says César: "I wind up foreign to my sculptures, and see them lucidly. The result is I'm always kicking myself in the rear...
...joint that wasn't a drag. Reason: too much fuzz (cops). Just about any coffeehouse-the Gaslight, the Epitome, the International (behind the White Horse, where Dylan Thomas used to drink), any place, in fact, where the espressos are like Rome's and the cats are cool-had a freeze on. The copniks, like, had told the beatniks, like, that reading poetry aloud is entertainment, and to have entertainment a joint's got to have a cabaret license. "We don't get no bread [money] for this," pleaded the Gaslight's Bob Lubin...
This Togetherness Stuff. There are non-Clansmen in town whose attitude toward Shirley is somewhat more analytical. They focus on the calculation behind the talent, enjoy the "natural" comedienne but see the cool planning that makes her tick. They take pleasure in her company, as did the friend who squired her to Santa Anita one afternoon, smug in the knowledge that she had telephoned a gagwriter and announced: "I'm going to the races. Give me ten jokes on racing...
...over my new clothes. In the first minute all of them knocked me down, rolled me in the dirt and said, 'O.K., now you can play a western.' " A few minutes later, Shirley doused her tormentors with a bucket of water. "Wouldn't you like to cool off, Charlie?" she asked. "From then on, they knew I wasn't a prima donna exactly, and whatever they wanted to say, they went right ahead. The language, oh golly...
Most obvious upsurge in aluminum is consumer packaging, where the metal is being used for aerosol cans, carrying-cases for soft drinks, keeping beer cool (an aluminum foil laminated can) and covering detergent boxes. Alcoa predicts that aluminum packaging applications, which accounted for 227 million Ibs. last year, will grow to 400 million...