Word: glides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into infinity. The role of the avenging Bacchantes, who tore Orpheus apart in the ancient myth, is now taken by a seedy bunch of envious poets who gather in what looks like Paris' Café de Flore. When characters shuttle between this life and the next, they glide through mirrors-Cocteau's favorite symbol of the doorway to death ("Look at yourself in a mirror all your life, and you will see death at work like bees in a hive of glass...
...mildly off-color number called The Janitor's Boy. The audience liked some of Elsa's pitches, but they were a little letdown by the delivery: she made no effort to cozy up to the customers between numbers. Persian Room audiences have been trained on entertainers who glide around the ringside tables, wooing the patrons with vocal ardor and sentiment...
...National League, Philadelphia's Whiz Kids had seemed set to win in a downhill glide. On Sept. 19 they were 7½ games ahead of the Boston Braves, nine games ahead of the third-place Brooklyn Dodgers. Then things began to happen. Bereft of star Southpaw Curt Simmons, who had been called up by the National Guard (TIME, Aug. 7), the Phillie pitching staff fell apart at the seams. At the same moment, the hitters stopped hitting, and the infielders began booting ground balls. The Phillies lost eight of their next eleven games...
...front instead of in back "where [they] belong," six or eight cylinders when "four are enough for [180 m.p.h.] Indianapolis racing cars."* To the nostalgic Musselman, even modern advertising slogans sound "moronic" alongside some of the old ones: "Buy a Bates and Keep Your Dates," "Ride in a Glide Then Decide...
Toward the Touchdown. George can be used with GCA too. In one such system designed by Gilfillan Bros., Inc., a radar picks up the approaching airplane and automatically sends out coded orders to put it on the desired glide path. George translates the orders into the proper movements of the airplane's wheel and throttle, and steers the plane down toward the field. The system can keep track of six incoming airplanes simultaneously. If one of them has no automatic equipment, it can be talked down by voice...