Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feet of waterline than customary for a 40-footer, obeying a simple logic: a longer waterline tends to make a boat faster. He then hung an immense 700 sq. ft. of sail above, counterbalancing it with a deep three-ton fin keel, while keeping the boat's underbelly flat for speed off the wind. Instead of streamlining the rudder into the keel, he stuck a spade-shaped rudder well aft, which gives such strong leverage that a twelve-year-old child has handled a Cal-40 in 40-knot winds. The bold tinkering gives the Cal-40 an almost...
There is no danger to their practice since SOS doctors are forbid den to see the patient in daylight hours. Instead, they charge a flat $10 per call plus the cost of medicine, then write a letter to the patient's regular doctor the next morning, informing him of the treatment given. It is all working so well that a group of Rome doctors has already arrived in Paris to study the procedure...
...flippancy sound quotable just by arching his eyebrows over it, Grant is never left on his own to build a flimsy notion into a one-man show. Sol Saks's dialogue bristles amiably from first to last, and when blithe spirits threaten to overflow the tiny three-room flat, Director Charles Walters shuffles words, pranks and players in and around greater Tokyo with a perfectly relaxed air. Hutton, a quizzical comic talent packed into a skyscraper frame, hilariously displays a pained embarrassment over his skill as a wiggly-hipped 30-mile walker, and he passes the test...
Diffuse and emotionally flat despite its expert airborne excitement, The Blue Max sets out to be a caustic essay on honor, ends up posing questions no more timeless and universal than Who will get Ursula? and Who will be the next ace to fell 20 British planes? The only way to help such synthetic melodrama to a climax is to reveal, once more, the unstartling news that the Kaiser's forces are about to lose World...
...because it precludes those subtle soundings that make it unnecessary ever to say that devastatingly face-destroying word "no." The Chinese, Thai and Burmese have no word at all for "no"-leaving one to interpret from context, facial expression or some other nuance whether or not "perhaps" is a flat turndown...