Word: elasticize
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Bit by bit in recent months, the toll of inflation has dragged a reluctant Nixon toward an incomes policy. In his latest move, the President established a guidepost for construction wage increases: about 6% a year. His executive order called on labor and management to set up "craft dispute boards...
Died. Fernandel, 67, elastic-featured French comedian who mugged his way to international cinema fame in The Little World of Don Camilla (1951); of cancer; in Paris. His real name was Fernand Contandin, but he preferred "just one name. Like Napoleon." He won an amateur singing contest in 1928, eleven...
Despite all his talents, each of Mailer's new journalistic endeavors inspires a touch of cynicism, for his style often works like an elastic bag into which he can pour anything from political conventions to traffic congestion and come up with instant apocalyptic meditations. His early essays in the middle...
What do Charles Manson, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Billie Sol Estes, Abbie Hoffman, Bobby Scale, various General Electric executives and numerous Mafia members have in common? They have all been accused or convicted of conspiracy, the most elusive crime on the books. The crime can be little more than an intention...
When (as they did a couple of times during the B.U. concert) the guitarists step back to their amplifiers for a drink of Budweiser and let their chords fade out, Kreutzmann and Hart take over and demonstrate one reason why one band has two drummers. They turn on their stools...