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Like fishbones at the backdoors of the feast...
...told of the last day on the island, which included a feast of illegal undersized lobsters and the sampling of cooked gull...
...shipbuilding industry on the ground that it would amount to Government interference in a civilian-market shortage. That meant that shipbuilders, who are getting only 40% of the steel they need, will have to fight for a place in line, and few suppliers are likely to favor the feast-or-famine shipyards over such big, steady customers as automakers and the heavy-construction industry...
...lost) and record spending ($44 billion) for new buildings. Everywhere, from Manhattan's jagged skyline to San Francisco's rolling hills, the steel skeletons of new skyscrapers were etched against the sky. And at year's end the industry was faced with new demands from the feast-and-famine shipbuilding industry, which has enjoyed its biggest year since the Korean war with 1,567,661 tons of new shipping on order or on the ways. The Suez crisis, plus the trend to the null supertankers, flooded U.S. yards with orders -even if no one was sure when...
...cheek, explaining its softness. An old man speaks, and the spectator can clearly hear the slobber as it slides up and down his throat. Effective as it is, there is nevertheless something tiresome in all this sensuality. In The Magnificent Seven, as in Rashomon, Kurosawa has provided a feast of impressions, but has skimped on some of the more essential vitamins. The characters are clearly written and admirably played, especially the leader of the Samurai (Takashi Shimura). But only rarely does the story seem to drop through the floor of everyday reality into the moral hell that war really...