Word: flicks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five separate accounts simultaneously. IBM also has a new super-time-clock system, in which one master clock regulates all lights, air conditioning, heating, doors and vaults in a plant. For example, a few minutes before 9 o'clock each morning, the machine can open the doors, flick on lights, turn on heat or the air conditioner; at closing time it shuts up shop without human help...
...Hugh M. Flick, chief New York State movie censor, declared that for a movie censor, sex is fairly easy to handle (he often cuts it out), but brutality is much harder to manage: "punishment [of a brutal villain] doesn't disconnect your unconscious identification with a star you know and like...
...Russians that officials who called at the High Commission are "representatives of the Austrian people," and that any charges against them could be investigated only through Austrian channels. Snapped Raab: "This is an unprecedented abuse of right and justice, but it will never break our will." With a flick of a dossier, the Russians had effectively reminded occupied Austria who pulls the strings-and who must jump...
Composer Villa-Lobos cares not the flick of a grace note if some of his music sounds flimsy. "Better that people should hear bad Villa-Lobos than good somebody else," is his motto. When told that a theme of his sounds like something else, it is news (but not bad news...
...Wilde epigrams merely amuse. Many cannot be read without an almost haunting sense of familiarity-because so many of the playful paradoxes in which Wilde turned the world upside down have since become realities. Seeing Lord Henry, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, demolish morality in the flick of an opium-scented cigarette, one is unavoidably reminded that, in the 20th century, whole philosophies have been based on brutal versions of elegant sophistries such as his, and whole armies on the philosophies, and whole empires on the armies...