Word: gabrielic
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...strike wreaks some degree of havoc, and the dock stoppage is no exception. In Chicago, some of the display props for Carson Pirie Scott's two-week promotion of Italian wares never arrived. Gabriel Industries cannot get battery-powered motors for its Erector Sets; Ideal Toy, based in New York City, has laid off some 200 of its 2,500 workers...
...year. A film section on violence, for instance, moves rapidly through 19 scenes of mass murder, bludgeoning, bombing and miscellaneous mayhem. In the film on sexuality, compassionate treatment of sex is viewed favorably, but many scenes are criticized for mechanizing and dehumanizing sex. Among the more eye-stopping examples: Gabriel Kaplan joking about gang rape; a crazed rapist on Baretta telling his victim, "I've broken a lot of necks in my time. I'm glad you know it. It will make it better." On advertising, T.A.T. presents the classic (though now changed) commercial in which David Janssen...
From the mid-'20s to the mid-'50s, Cole Porter was a one-man industry, both on Broadway and in Hollywood. His songs have long since become a lasting, universal language, from the flashy I Get a Kick out of You and Blow, Gabriel, Blow to the romantic experimental ballads Night and Day and Begin the Beguine. His polished lyrics have rarely been equaled-some scarcely need melody to support them: "Is it an earthquake/ or simply a shock?/ Is it the good turtle soup/ or merely the mock? . . . is it Granada I see/ or only Asbury Park...
...navigable body of water on earth. Yet this vast land mass, drooping from North America like some ripe, unplucked fruit, has produced some of this century's major poets and novelists: Peru's Cesar Vallejo, Chile's Pablo Neruda, Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez of Colombia...
...most worrisome signs of protest came from the armed forces. Admiral Gabriel Pita da Veiga y Sanz, 68 -the only member of the Cabinet who had also served under Franco-angrily resigned as Navy Minister, telling Suarez that he could not sit in a government that had legalized Communists. There were fears that a number of other senior officers would follow him out of the government. But at a stormy 3½-hour meeting of the Superior Council of the Army, the hard-liners backed down; the officers expressed their "revulsion" at the government's action, but they agreed...