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...movie acting: "You have to get up in front of a camera and say the same lines all day long. It's like saying: 'Pass the salad, pass the salad, pass the salad,' until it gets as dull to your ear as water dripping from a faucet." He also dislikes some of the character-diluting cutting that moviemakers do. One final unkind cut in Caesar: "During the battle-I've forgotten the lines-where Octavius says something like 'Man, what's happening?' and I say 'Cool, Dick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jun. 1, 1953 | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...first among the states in the production of oil, gas, mohair, wool, cattle and Angora goats. It has 132,000 oil wells, three highly regarded city symphony orchestras and a housewife who recently ordered a bracelet bangle designed to look like a kitchen sink with diamonds dripping from the faucet. It has the Cullen Foundation, which has set aside $160 million worth of oil properties to endow medical, educational and charitable institutions. One Texan has a million-dollar-a-week income, and so many others have so much less that the per-capita income of Texans is slightly less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Where Everything Is More So | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...bottle of foot lotion into each room. A major tourist attraction last week was the new eight-room, $40,000 presidential suite at the Congress Hotel where hundreds of visitors, held back by museum-like ropes, gazed at the master parlor and bar, the mahogany beds, the solid-gold faucet handles in the bathroom. In this suite Bob Taft is staying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Eve of the Big Show | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

...Faucet Bars. "Build-it-yourself" is already a booming business. Those who were quick to detect it have cashed in. Black & Decker, one of the first power toolmakers to go after the amateur market, has boosted sales from $17 million to $30 million in five years. Brooklyn's David E. Kennedy Inc. (Kentile), which advertises the fact that a housewife can install a new kitchen floor, is now the biggest U.S. seller of asphalt tiles. Sales of all such asphalt tiles have risen in a decade from about 90 million sq. ft. to an estimated 550 million, of which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Do It Yourself | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

...amendment mercifully states that when the nation is in a state of war, Congress could waive the twenty-five percent ceiling. While this temporarily saves the American people from denying themselves funds for their own defense, it also assumes that wars can be turned on and off like a faucet. Military preparations to prevent wars, or to prepare for them, would not come under the "time of war" provision of the amendment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: XXIII Skidoo | 2/29/1952 | See Source »

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