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Other than script and direction trouble, the picture's chief drawback is its disastrous miscasting of Barbara Stanwyck as a featherweight. Her no-nonsense personality jars a skittery light comedy right off its fragile moorings. When Barbara slips into a filmy negligee and begins to thresh about a hotel bedroom with her leading man, it is impossible to remember that she is supposed to be just kidding around...
...price: not over $6,500 delivered. It is so light-only about three tons as compared with anywhere from 45 to 140 tons for an orthodox house, that it can be shipped from Wichita to any point in the U.S. for less than $100. Its biggest drawback is the drawback of all such houses: building codes automatically bar them in most cities. Bucky Fuller's house has one more drawback. It stands out like a fat thumb among conventional houses...
...only 10? a lb. more than train-shipped produce (OPA granted special ceilings), consumers gladly paid the difference. When the differential was greater, sales resistance developed. But the airborne foods often sold anyway. Examples: airborne grapes sold for 44? a lb. v. 27? for groundshipped. One surprising drawback: "experienced" shoppers, used to the appearance of days-old, rail-shipped products, often refused to buy fresh airborne lettuce because it looked "too green...
...face of the cathode-ray tube. The angular positions of the flashes indicate the di rection the storm is taking. A network of stations taking simultaneous observations of the same flashes can locate their source and spot a storm position in a 2,000-mile radius. One drawback: not all storms stir up enough static...
...poison, because it soon learns to detect a give-away taste or smell. But "1080," a chemical known as sodium fluoroacetate, fools the cagiest rat. It is soluble in water and can be offered in a tasteless solution. And a pinpoint of it kills a half-pound rat. Drawback: "1080" is also deadly to dogs, other "small mammals...