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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...