Word: gaslight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three-cornered rotor with curved sides. A shaft passes through the rotor and makes it move on an eccentric orbit by means of two gears. All three corners of the triangle stay in contact with the wall of the chamber at all times. To make the contacts gaslight, each corner is tipped with an inset metal strip that, as the drive shaft revolves, is pushed tight against the cavity's inner walls by centrifugal force...
...classrooms. Another 1,300,000 bright-eyed youngsters invaded the schools last year, and this new school year of 1959-60 begins with 1,843,000 more children than the schools have room for. One-third of the schools are potential firetraps ; some are still using gaslight; nearly 75% of the high schools are too small to pay for anything resembling a nuclear-age curriculum. And though wise men urge the country to spend at least twice as much money for education, the U.S. maintains an "educational deficit" estimated at anything from $6.8 billion to $9 billion yearly...
Belle tells all-or. anyway, enough to leave the rest readily imagined-in this ribaldly readable autobiography of an uncommon bawd, which is at the same time a perceptive reminiscence of the gaslight culture in its last wild glare...
...Long lines of ticket buyers curled across Herald Square from the box office of the Garrick Theater on Manhattan's 35th Street. Her name went up in lights on the marquee, and for more than half a century the glow remained. Styles changed: Broadway brightened (and cheapened) from gaslight into the Great White Way, and moved north to Times Square; nickelodeons grew into movie houses; the talkies came, driving the "legit" theater into retreat, and the ghostly black-and-white flicker of TV in turn haunted the movies. But wherever actors worked at their trade, Ethel Barrymore ruled...
Around Manhattan's Washington Square early last week, there was hardly a joint that wasn't a drag. Reason: too much fuzz (cops). Just about any coffeehouse-the Gaslight, the Epitome, the International (behind the White Horse, where Dylan Thomas used to drink), any place, in fact, where the espressos are like Rome's and the cats are cool-had a freeze on. The copniks, like, had told the beatniks, like, that reading poetry aloud is entertainment, and to have entertainment a joint's got to have a cabaret license...