Word: finds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wind roared through the open trap door, "Obie" Obenauf hurriedly searched for Maxwell's parachute. His body was weakened from lack of oxygen. He could not find the chute. He looked down at Maxwell again, felt an awful, strong urge to leave him. "Gee, I got my own battle to fight." Then Obie, just turned 23, five years out of high school, father of a ten-month old boy, father-to-be of a second child, turned around and crawled back into his rear cockpit and took control of the airplane on the chance that he might be able...
...snapped by photographers, interviewed by newsmen. The girls went on Fifth Avenue shopping sprees, passed opinions about the chemise ("all right for the not too fat"), Americans ("very friendly"), Manhattan ("too noisy"), the Broadway musical West Side Story ("too sexy"). When the dancers visited Harlem, they were amazed to find broad streets where they had expected to find "oppressed classes" living in shacks. The stoutly Republican New York Herald Tribune, learning that blonde Dancer Lydia Skriabina cherished but could not afford a $5 mechanical bear, sent a reporter dashing out to buy it and present...
...despite graphic moments, The Firstborn is a lifeless failure, it is less that Fry had not yet acquired a rhetoric than that he had misapplied it. His literary conceits, his verbal arabesques suffocate anything truly alive. Half don, half dandy, Fry was to find himself in mannerism rather than substance, in the mocking wink rather than the observing eye. Despite Katharine Cornell's regal efforts as Pharaoh's sister, or trumpet-voiced Anthony Quayle's as Moses, the Egypt of The Firstborn is mummified. Only Boris Aronson's sets evoke something once living and still large...
...overhaul; brakes have twice the stopping power and twice (40,000 miles) the life; lights, springs, tires, steering, seats and upholstery are all vastly better. "It has become fashionable not to buy a car," says a G.M. salesman with some bitterness. "Then, to prove you are really chic, you find something wrong with all cars-maybe one word, 'Horrible.' That shows everybody you have good taste-and it conceals the real fact: you don't want to commit yourself to paying off a car for the next two years because you don't know...
Love That Chrome. Despite all the yowling about chrome and size, the experts scoff at the notion that Detroit's problem-or even a major part of it-is a mere matter of style. "This industry grew because we have made it our business to find out what people want," says a G.M. economist, noting that his company surveys 2,000,000 potential buyers each year. They are dissected for their likes and dislikes, like frogs in a laboratory. Thousands of lengthy questionnaires are sent out; microphones are hidden in new cars in showrooms to catch comments; salesmen carry...