Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that, it is a pretty exciting movie. Faulkner is as hard to kill as a Mississippi water moccasin, and his energy coils and snaps and hisses in the hundred distortions of the story. To begin with, the young man of the "broad, flat face [with] eyes the color of stagnant water" has been transformed by Hollywood into a dreamy-looking cinemactor named Paul Newman-but Newman's performance as Ben Quick, before the script blunts it, is as mean and keen as a cackle-edge scythe. And Eula Varner, she of the "kaleidoscopic convolution of mammalian ellipses," is divided...
...recession is taking on the "saucer" shape of 1953-54. The signs grow that we are on the bottom of the saucer, but it may take some time to cross the flat part of the bottom...
...annulment suit in an Italian court, Ingrid Bergman, 41, ventured on a northern route, lighted a new romance with rich, arty, Swedish Producer-Publisher Lars Schmidt, 45. Finding the way less volcanic, Ingrid first visited Schmidt's family, then, badly concealed behind dark glasses, high boots and a flat cap, and hugged around her chin by a scarf, she went off for a quiet weekend with Lars in a wooden summer cottage on a Swedish West Coast island. "I love that little island," purred Ingrid, who had once been enchanted by another idyllic island, Stromboli. Asked whether a marriage...
...show: star, script, and sometimes even financing. M.C.A. makes much of being simply a service organization, brags of the number of executives it has servicing clients, like a college with a low teacher-student ratio. Its executives are paid on an incentive plan; senior executives get a flat $100 a week, plus a bonus-often huge-based on M.C.A.'s performance that year. Founder Stein still owns a majority of M.C.A. stock, and the remainder is held by 45 executives and a trust in which all employees participate...
...Flat Tube. Britain's government-sponsored National Research Development Corp. has patented a video system that cuts the depth of a TV tube to only 5 in. The secret is a new method of guiding an electron beam to the screen more accurately than before. Theoretically, such tubes will eliminate many costly controls, cut prices of future color receivers, make a TV set flat enough (about 7 in.) to hang on a wall...