Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Skelm's poverty is reflected in its flat, treeless landscape so characteristic of Lancashire. The air is heavy with dust and the northern wind is harsh. The town's only landmark is the beacon on one of the few hills at the city limits. Visitors are always taken to the beacon to see the fine farmlands to the south and west, the motorway to the east, and the decaying city of Wigan to the north. There is no exit or entrance to the motorway at Skelmersdale...
...flat collages and reliefs and four freestanding aluminum constructions show that even his steadfast adherence to collage has not inhibited a distinct and rational progression in both style and content. In the early 1950s, Marca-Relli was concerned with semi-abstract figures of people, then moved on to swelling abstract panoramas of jostling, fluttering and flying scraps of canvas. From that period, 1958's Night Freight, says Marca-Relli, "has a feeling of movement which could have been the rumbling of a quiet freight filled with bodies being taken away in the night...
Wallach's mailman is an intellectual who never went to college because he couldn't master French. He lives in a basement flat that other people use as a storage room. There's a blackboard in the room on which he places...
...second half of Medicare, or Part B, is the voluntary insurance system whereby over-65 subscribers pay a flat $3 a month, and the Federal Government matches this with another $3, to reimburse the patient for 80% of his doctors' bills in any given year (after a $50 deduction), plus other charges not covered by Part A. No fewer than 17.3 million of the 19.1 million eligibles elected to participate in Part B. In 15 months, those participants have received $800 million in reimbursement for physicians' and related services...
From the brittle material of his off-Broadway play The Tiger, Author Murray Schisgal has fashioned a cinematic cornucopia overflowing with sight and sound gags. In the end, the film degenerates into flat-out vaudeville buffoonery, but along the way it offers enough laughs to supply an entire season of canned TV comedies. The near-perfect performances of Jackson and Wallach-recreating their stage roles-are augmented by a parade of outstanding character actors. The funniest: Charles Nelson Reilly, as a clock-watching university registrar whose face is a festival of tics...