Word: fish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard. "I like to make things hum," he says. "I like to shout at the sun and spit at the moon." He had his nose sharpened by a plastic surgeon. His opinions did not need sharpening. He has often refused TV work, not wanting to swim in "the haunted fish tanks." He describes theater folk as "messy, sloppy, opinionated people, and if you can't stand them, you should go off and write slim volumes of poetry...
Better than Death. Not surprisingly, the Big Five, though still continuing to invest in Hawaiian projects, are increasingly looking for new fields abroad. Besides last week's Italian venture, Castle & Cooke has over the past six years built up a thriving fish-cannery business in Oregon; its Bumble Bee canned fish last year accounted for 38% of its $4,600,000 earnings. C. Brewer & Co. has set up cane plantations and sugar refineries in Ecuador, Puerto Rico and Iran. American Factors is developing 1,400,000 acres for agriculture in Australia and is experimenting with raising pineapples in Honduras...
...morbid romance progresses, there is no way to tell whether Miss Borges falls in love with Alcon or remains simply a cold fish. This is the type of question the story seems to pose, but Nilsson lamely answers it only at the end of the film and never creates more than the machanical semblance of a love affair, or of any clear personal relations...
...village administration, agriculture, public health, guerrilla warfare and "Information Science"-a stiff dose of anti-Communist propaganda. In West Java villages, lieutenants teach peasants to read with king-sized letter cards, and sergeants demonstrate to housewives how to purify water. Knee-deep in the village streams, soldiers plant fish traps made from bamboo and rushes; in the paddyfields, noncoms and men with hoes help farmers clear irrigation ditches of weeds and snags. "The villages are where we won the revolution against the Dutch," says an army colonel. "And this is where we've got to win it against...
...heat, the other mastic and tape). The resulting seams are buried in twelve-inch trenches and covered with dirt to anchor the liner to the lake floor. Recreational lakes need an additional six-inch layer of earth to protect the plastic bottom from being holed by boat anchors and fish spears...