Word: knitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...catharsis can only come from such a closely-knit sequence of highly charged events compressed into a narrow time span. If those events all work together to virtually place the viewer inside the main character's skin, the film attains tragic proportions; if they do not, it degenerates into sensationalism. In The Pawnbroker the backdrop of the city creates a matrix which binds up the different devices and makes them effective. The pawnbroker's cage or the ugly apartment houses standing for the community achieve a near-symbolism, so that the viewer stops thinking in terms of reality and enters...
...there the big blood vessel could be clamped shut well beyond the point where arteries branch off to supply the brain. The lower part of the body could be deprived of its blood supply long enough to let the surgeons cut out the diseased section and replace it with knit Dacron tubing. When the heart-lung machine became a practical adjunct in surgery, the horizon was suddenly widened. It became possible to operate anywhere along the aorta, while the machine supplied blood continuously to the brain...
...softly carpeted executive suites of the Aluminum Co. of America have been governed since 1957 by a close-knit fraternity of men who grew up in the shadow of the late Arthur Vining Davis, for half a century the domineering chief of the world's largest aluminum company. In those eight years, in a series of frequent but gradual transitions, Alcoa's chairmen have three times passed on their duties as chief executive shortly before retirement. Last week, nearing 65, Chairman Lawrence Litchfield Jr. relinquished his duties as chief executive officer, a position he has held for only...
...would take a generation of Asian Ataturks to knit unified nations out of what are all too often simply shreds of geographic motley. Today's Asia, however, is short on Ataturks. Since Nehru's death, most leaders of Asia's developing countries fall into one of two categories: those too weak to overcome hatred as such and those who try to exploit it to build up their personal power...
...American women took to thermals for other reasons. "I love that oldfashioned, hand-knit look," said one New York housewife. "I'm so tired of everything being made slick and plastic and impersonal." Housewives also value its practicality: while wool blankets tend to emerge from the washing machine feeling like congealed cardboard, cotton thermals neither stiffen nor shrink, and they do not carry the static electricity that is the plague of lightweight synthetic brands...