Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this is merely an excuse (and an ingenious excuse) for Aldrich's larger concerns. For Lylah is not only a film about movies-it is a film about the making of a film about movies. The possibilities for fun within such a conception are endless-and I don't think Aldrich fails to exploit a single one of them...
When its engagement began on Feb. 7, 1966, the band served mainly as an escape from the endless round of TV and jingle jobs through which its individual members actually make a living. In the ensuing years, playing the Vanguard on Monday nights, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis group has reached a level of perfection and invention now matched only by the Duke Ellington band...
...complete without its obligatory corpses: various Old Massas die from fire, asp and poison (stomach "exploding like an infernal machine"). Sensuality, in turn, has an almost murderous force. Always there are the users and the used. Slave caravans seem to march across the top of every page like an endless frieze...
...ideal site for a nuclear plant is one for which there is no evidence of any seismic activity over the past millennia; is not subject to hurricanes, tornadoes or floods. It should be in an endless expanse of unpopulated desert with an abundant supply of very cold water flowing nowhere and containing no aquatic life. Most important, it should be adjacent to a major load center...
...scenario could have been plucked from a lachrymose soap opera. For years, the leading soapmakers-Procter & Gamble, Colgate Palmolive and Lever Bros.-successfully wooed the U.S. housewife. By concocting an endless variety of "new" ingredients to make her wash "whiter," "brighter" and "sparkling," they induced her to buy more than a billion dollars worth of detergents and "pre-soaks" annually. The courtship intensified in 1967, when the soapmen introduced wonder-cleaning enzymes with a splashy campaign. The enzymes were first promoted in "pre-soaks," in which they act the way stomach acids work on food, eating away hard-to-remove...