Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past is thrilling. Except for coeds who knit in class, nothing irritates him more than people who refuse to look back. "Anyone who thinks that the world began in 1921," he snaps, "has missed the boat as a human being." Before each of Shakespeare's plays, he carefully lays the scene-the Denmark of Hamlet, the England of the Henrys, a physical description of Cleopatra ("I fumble around with this damn business to make the past seem eloquent"). Then he launches into the plays themselves, acting out each part. "Students must experience Shakespeare," he says, "not just read...
...lifeguard who can't be bothered with sunglasses may look handsomer than his begoggled colleagues, but he is not the man to take the wheel during a moonlight drive. And the factory worker who tries to relax while squinting tearfully into the ocean glare may, as a result, have an accident at the work bench more than a week later. The effects of overexposure to bright sunlight last longer than most people realize...
...most Far Eastern readers, it will be their first look at a comic book; for many, it will be their first look at a book. By printing the books on heavy paper instead of newsprint, the U.S. expects them to last until upwards of 50 people have thumbed through each...
...C.I.O., which has frequently demanded a look at a company's balance sheet, last week for the first time disclosed its own, as required by the Taft-Hartley Act. In the C.I.O. News, the union said that on Sept. 30 it had a net worth of $1,480,313, "about 25? for each C.I.O. union member" in the U.S. On this basis, C.I.O. membership was 5,900,000. The union listed its year's income at $3,040,390, and expenditures at $2,883,215. It set forth that its net worth had increased $157,175 since...
Cianfarra's dispatch discreetly ducked the obvious question: Did Ingrid look as if she were an expectant mother in her sixth month? For a colleague, the Timesman had an answer: not at all. That at least threw some doubt on Louella's arithmetic...