Word: melt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dialogue reaches its dramatic heights in these catacombs. The electrician defiantly claims the tube for himself, as champion of the "clones"--the working class. His nemesis Acme blusters in riposte that without the tube, his visions of "rubber roads that lead nowhere, watches that never melt, and cheap art and compulsive education" will vanish...
...book links together short memoirs written by each of them, centering around their loves and power struggles to control the troupe. Directed toward the reader as stage-whispered confessions of behind-the-scenes intrigues, these memoirs are at first appealing in their simplicity and gossipy perceptions, but soon melt into each other. Straightforward once-upon-a-time rhythms become monotonous, especially since Prose does not shift tones of voice. She introduces few variations--in speech patterns, humor, or sarcasm, for example--to distinguish the players' musings...
Where troubles melt like lemon drops...
...symptom and a symbol of a community turned toward reality or away from it. "Humankind cannot bear very much reality," wrote T.S. Eliot, but neither, one might add, can it afford to have too little. And this spring, escapes with or without clothes to lands where "troubles melt like lemon drops" are taking on the trappings of a full-time occupation...
...cardboard boxes. This year, industry executives plan to increase spending on new factories and machinery by 34.4%, to $2.5 billion. Demand for steel far outstripped supply last year. Now the biggest steel users, the automakers, are cutting back orders sharply, but the nation's mills still cannot melt and roll steel fast enough to fill the needs of other customers. So, steelmen expect to boost 1974 capital spending by 30%, to $1.8 billion...