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...moviehouses, they are treacherously playing on nerves. One Cape Cod theater runs a telephone tape that announces, "Jaws is playing. See it before you go swimming." Shark jokes are all black; in an interview with "Hollywood's No. 1 star" on the Tonight Show, Johnny Carson asked a foam rubber great white, "How do you keep your teeth clean?" Snapped the shark: "I swallow people with naturals...
When California Angels Righthander Nolan Ryan pitches, curious things happen. Batters edge back from the plate, opposing managers bench their red-hot hitters, Angel outfielders let fly balls drop in for base hits, and the Angel catcher stuffs a half-inch-thick pad of foam rubber into his glove. The reason: Ryan throws so hard he rewrites the basic customs of the game. Batters inch back because they are scared, managers yank top hitters because they can't connect on high fastballs, Ryan's own outfielders are lulled to sleep by the preponderance of infield outs his pitches...
Estimates of how much the troubleshooters may eventually find range from $50 million to $100 million or more. It is a cornucopia of miscellany-"everything from vaginal foam to cement mixers," says one AID official. Among the items found so far: tin plate, steel sheet, chemicals, dies, pumps, cotton, newsprint, forklift trucks, photocopying machines. Says Frink in Hong Kong: "We have part of a rice mill. It may be an entire rice mill-I won't know until I get into the boxes. The same thing with an edible oil mill. There is a big shipment of ladles...
...bridge was nicely symbolic, too. It spanned a ravine that divided Pointe Noire into a city and a village. The city was where the seamen were, sitting in the wicker chairs and on the foam pads beside the Atlantic Palace Hotel's swimming pool, as obsequious white-coated waiters served them gin and tonics. All they needed were pith helmets and cigars to put the scene back 20 years, when paternal Europeans were prodding their adopted African children into the mummifying swathes of apron strings. But the apron strings have rotted in the heat and humidity. The people...
...yearning to return to the freedom of the cartoon form, the costumes come into their element. Animating the entire production with her lively imagination and sense of the ridiculous, costume director Martha Burtt uses everything from Oblio's pajamas and orange velvet tails to an ingenious suit of foam boulders for Rock Man and a new-born bird outfit for Baby Pterodactyl...