Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hero Griffith earns his nickname when he shaves his skull egg-bald in hopes of growing thicker hair. When not engaged in scalping himself, he bangs pans by day and bumblefoots around the local talent (Felicia Farr) by night, but hits stormy weather on both fronts. His chief cook (Walter Matthau), a sardonic old coot with a mania for cinnamon rolls, marries the girl. Then Cookie ships out for convoy duty, and Griffith finds himself heating up both the gal and the gallery...
...sperm is consistently blocked from reaching the egg, and intercourse between man and woman proceeds with the knowledge of this separation between them, the human being shows himself to be not only smarter than the animals but also capable of greater ennui. Where is the love in that, and to what is the sex act reduced...
...tooled commonplaces of U.S. life into a surreal landscape of fantasy, a kind of Poe-like, gadget-haunted region of Weir. Thus a soda-fountain stool violently revolves into a "tall mushroom," a newly screwed-in electric bulb lights up with "the hideous instancy of a dragon's egg hatching in one's bare hand." It is the strength of Nabokov's imagination that makes the characters in these stories live. It is the weakness of his characters that they can live only in their imaginations...
CEMENT was known in ancient Crete; both Romans and Phoenicians used concrete. The shell as a form has fascinated man since he first learned to crack an egg. But it was not until mid-19th century engineers first reinforced concrete with iron ribs that concrete-shell construction suddenly opened up an exciting array of new architectural solutions to the age-old problem of providing shelter that is both economical and sound. Today, after decades of experiment and mathematical computation, concrete-shell constructions are at last coming into their...
...surrender" egg, originally hatched out of a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article, was set down in the slow incubator of the Congressional Record (along with two routine editorials on farm legislation) by Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington. The report stayed quietly warm for four days, then popped from its shell. Somehow, perhaps even by finally getting around to reading the Record, it came to the attention of Republican Senators. When the G.O.P. congressional leaders went to the White House for a legislative meeting with the President, they asked the Army's Dwight Eisenhower what all the surrender...