Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immediate answer: any number for the boxes, but only 6 for the triangle. In one of his experimental classes, reports Mathematician Robert B. Davis of the Missouri-based Madison Project, one third-grade boy actually invented a new way of subtracting by junking the borrowing process in 64 minus 28. His answer: "Subtracting 8 from 4 gives minus 4. 20 from 60 is 40, and 40 plus a minus 4 equals 36, so the answer...
Speaking of women, the ladies in the balcony who go to see whether Doris Day Will should find this film adequate. Elke Sommer plays Doris' part in much the same way--minus a half inch of pancake makeup and plus a few inches elsewhere...
Thereafter, on a predictable split-second schedule, practically everything goes wrong. At the climax, Old Wave Director Henri Verneuil achieves a scene that is a gem of understatement. Plopped down at poolside like a bull walrus minus his tusks and a billion clams, Veteran Actor Gabin blinks goodbye to his ill-gotten gains, filling the moment with memorable stupefaction. Best side bets of Any Number Can Win are glimpses of the human flotsam and jetsam beached on the Riviera, but all in all it is a cinematic gamble that never quite pays...
...female bottom, in fact, has been treated like an embarrassment - flattened, cinched in, and obfuscated into the monobuttock, which appears in nature only in the wasp and other unpleasant creatures. U.S. girdle makers long ago discovered that for export overseas they had to provide a different treatment of fundamentals, minus the firm back panel that compresses the U.S. figure so sternly...
...York, Cathy Berberian used to sing along with recordings of Lily Pons in The Bell Song and Basso Boris Chaliapin in The Song of the Flea-note for note, pitch for pitch. The vocal range she developed eventually settled into an astonishing reach of three octaves -minus one note-more than enough | to sing both Tristan and Isolde. But every sound she is capable of making is required by the freak music she now sings. At 35, Cathy Berberian is the first lady of far-out song...