Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...positively gargantuan. She is 82 feet long, 30 feet wide, weighs six tons, is built like a zeppelin of chicken wire, fabric and glue, and is currently lying on her back with knees raised in a gallery of Stockholm's Museum of Modern Art. A cross between an amusement park and a return to the womb, She is one of the most uproarious, outrageous-and incredibly popular-exhibits to make its debut in Sweden's capital in years...
...probably inevitable that Lana Turner and Producer Ross Hunter would want to take her out of mothballs just once more. Lana can wear clothes and look worried quite fetchingly, and Producer Hunter caters almost exclusively to an audience that not only loves to see and touch the flimsy fabric of human existence but likes to turn the stuff inside out and peek at the labels...
...avoid the fatal weaknesses of earlier dirigibles, Morse's airship would be constructed of high-strength alloys of titanium and aluminum, the outer covering of durable nylon fabric. Radar and improved meteorological forecasting would enable the ship to avoid severe storms. The use of nonflammable helium for buoyancy and nuclear instead of chemical fuel for propulsion would virtually eliminate the danger of fire and explosion...
...only one talking, he considers it "a kind of dialogue. I am acutely aware of the expressions on the students' faces. A puzzled look stops me short." Facts, he argues, are "just raw material for understanding basic relationships, and the whole job of teaching is to weave a fabric of relationships and to attach this at so many points to the student's life that it becomes a part...
...within the framework of basic American tradition. Some of the most drastic recent changes in American life-the emergence of unprecedented strong federal authority, the growth of what is in effect a welfare state, the election of a Roman Catholic to the presidency-could have torn or distorted the fabric of less firmly based societies. In the U.S. they were possible without major upheavals precisely because the underlying tradition of freedom under law and of responsible citizenship is so strong. Despite the disappearance of so many familiar landmarks, Sociologist David Riesman sees "incredible durability and tenacity" and suggests that tradition...