Word: corners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than one-eighth of a page in the Sunday New York Times. But by 7:30 Monday morning, people were falling into line for a show so long awaited and so much talked about that advertising was almost superfluous. By noon, the line stretched along 51st Street, turned the corner at shuttered Lindy's onto Broadway, headed uptown, rounded the corner again and began backing up into 52nd Street. The first day of box-office take for Coco, which starts previews next week, was a record-breaking $35,000 (at $3 to $15 a seat...
...Suddenly, Perrier itself is attacked. Mysterious buyers corner 10% of its shares. On the theory of "Cherchez Pétranger," suspicion immediately falls on Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch giant whose own bid for Sapiem has been rejected after the French government persuaded Sapiem to resist any foreign liaisons. Unilever emphatically denies raiding Perrier, and so do other potential foreign rivals, notably Switzerland's Nestlé and the U.S.'s KraftCo, which are also reputed to have eyes on France's dairy industry...
...Taylor once took some friends there to show them his old family world. On the way he described again and again an enormous painting of an ancestor which hung in the main hall. As you came up the main stairs and turned the corner and started around again, you were confronted with the giant relative (he may have been on horseback) which Mr. Taylor had told them about-spell-binding, looming, very...
...Taylor said that when he and his friends arrived at the house-where he had not been for many years-they went up the stairs to see the portrait. When he turned the corner he saw the same painting of the same ancestor in the same place-but it was very small. Instead of huge it was moderate say two feet by three feet instead of five feet by seven feet. All those years the painting had been growing and growing in his memory. He knew that nothing in the house had really changed. The confusion arose in his proud...
...could get on the VFW post, where the people were waiting for Vellucci. We entered the small room, post awards and citations on the front wall, a bar in the corner, Fred MacMurray on the tube across the room. On a table were cold cuts, cheese, rolls, potato salad and a giant cake with written on it. Vellucci insisted we take his picture beside it. For the rest of the evening he was conscious of our cameras, and whenever we focused on him he sensed it and assumed an appropriate pose...