Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...returning juvenile-delinquent son (pun intended) in The Return of the Prodigal Son. All this intermingling has the effect of broadening his pictures from the specific into the universal. It takes no special knowledge of slumland to appreciate the irony of a startlingly adult little girl licking an ice-cream cone amid hostile stares in a Harlem Summertime ("They grow up fast in that part of town"). Finally, what is true for his Negro subjects becomes true for every man. With this judgment, Bearden is in profound agreement. "My subject," he says "is people. They just happen to turn...
...Consider a world so cold," says Union Carbide Engineer Roger Thompson, "that the very air you breathe turns to liquid or freezes as solid as a block of ice, where steel is as brittle as glass, a rubber ball shatters when it hits the floor, and lead is an almost perfect conductor of electricity." The odd goings-on described by Engineer Thompson all occur in the far-out world of cryogenics-the science of ultra-low temperatures...
Modern cattlemen herd their cattle by helicopter, brand them with dry ice instead of red-hot irons, talk about "gatherings" instead of roundups, depend on a good accountant more than a wise old foreman and, when they fade into the sunset, do so in pickup trucks with their trusty horses comfortably trailered on behind. About the only things old pokes would still recognize about the industry, indeed, are its size and its troubles. Cattle roam no less than 40% of all the land in the U.S., account for 20% of all farm income and the principal revenues of at least...
...decided to leave the corrida and seek a stage career. Down to his last peseta, he desperately accepts a dare by the local impresario (Adolfo Celi), who agrees to book him into his theater on one condition: Sellers must seduce Britt Eklund (Mrs. Peter Sellers offstage), an ice-cold big-league golddigger whose favorite phrase is "Mine...
...wasn't until the 14-minute mark in the first period that the Crimson broke the scoring ice. Richie Hardy, the sophomore center halfback who has been a very pleasant surprise for Munro so far this year, passed through a pack of Techmen in front of their goal. Harvard inside Bruce Detora kicked the ball toward the goalie, Jeff Reynolds, who batted it right into the waiting foot of Ahmed Yehia. A second later, Yehia had tallied his fifth goal of the young season...