Word: low
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opium taken off with a knife before noon and wrapped in a poppy petal [see cut]. Stopping the opium trade is only half the problem. It is necessary to give these people other sources of income, as opium has been traditionally their source for trade goods. They get a low price for it, the profit going to unknown people further down the drug train...
...this low level of debate, a vote was taken. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had his automatic Tory majority and won by a vote of 317 to 254. It was an election year, and Macmillan was going to neither scuttle Lennox-Boyd nor admit to any failure...
...must go to David Hays' lighting, which is as inspired and effective as I have seen in a long time (and it contributes so much that I urge you to attend an evening rather than a daytime performance). Hays is not afraid to keep many of his light levels low, which is right since so much of the play takes place either at night or under dark clouds. Macbeth's hallucinatory ghosts at the banquet are effected entirely by lighting: this is also a wise decision, for Banquo (and then Duncan?) should no more walk in and sit down...
Vita Manga Est. Last week the menthol drive reached its peak of intensity, proclaimed by full-page ads that touted every gimmick that adman can conceive and machine execute. Philip Morris (Marlboro, Parliament) launched Alpine on a national scale, billed it not only as a long, low-tar, lightly mentholated cigarette with "the longest filter yet," but as one of the few cigarettes since Camel to come in a package with a picture on it (of an Alpine mountain). Brown & Williamson, whose "Thinking Man" Viceroys thoughtlessly slumped 20% in the first quarter, clawed back with two new filters: the mentholated...
Into the executive offices of General Electric's Hotpoint division last year flowed a series of disturbing reports. Despite an industry-wide pickup, Hotpoint's sales of laundry appliances were slipping to an abnormal low. When the company's officers set out to find the reason for the slump, they ran into a manufacturer's nightmare...