Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speed & Thrust. Most authorities credit the All's performance to its lightness, its radical double-delta wing and its equally radical engines. The weight depends largely on lavish use of titanium, which is not much heavier than aluminum, but stands the searing heat of Mach3 flight. Titanium alloys sell for more than $5 per Ib. and are difficult to fabricate, but advanced airplanes are no respecters of cost...
...weather too is unsettling. Heat and humidity stifle most activity save bathing and eroticism. It soon became clear that Ester's masturbation (long enough in the American version) is a poor substitute for the Lesbian feelings she has for Anna. Anna is not free from reciprocal impulses, but her hate finally triumphs over love in a heterosexual affair with a strange waiter. She taunts her sister with stories about her lover and, in the film's climax, flings open the door behind which she knows Ester is hiding. Cruelly, Anna continues her bed play to torture her watching sister...
...testify, Levinson was handed a subpoena ordering him to produce his financial records in Las Vegas next week in a tax case involving Baker. Thus, even as the Rules Committee's low-octane investigation seemed about to run out of gas, Bobby's troubles were beginning to heat...
Critics cavil that not enough countries are represented at the New York World's Fair. Such critics, said Robert Moses, 75, offhandedly plucking a barb from the bulrushes, wonder why there is no exhibit from such as "the Sultan of Kuwait with his bottomless oil, Cadillacs, harems, heat, sand flies and camel dung." That kind of joke is as old as Moses, but tiny Kuwait was not amused. "Grossly unfactual references," said Talat Al-Ghoussein, Kuwait's Ambassador to the U.S., in a stiff note to the Fair president. Oil there is, to be sure...
...defeat, sorting out by slow social processes the stray dogs that forage among the ruins. Though the film runs two hours, much longer than necessary, its best scenes are unforgettably good. Cheering throngs at a Tokyo baseball stadium provide background for one tingling chase. In a city overcome by heat, the camera searches a line of chorus girls collapsed on a dressing-room floor, flesh glistening with sweat, each face a breathless distillation of despair. After a murder, a closeup of a splattered tomato-despite the obvious symbolism-suddenly, almost insidiously, conveys the whole meaning of horror and grief combined...