Word: modeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fascinating to read all about how those brilliant designers in Detroit design doors that go "thunk." Detroit has engineered other important sounds into my late-model car. There is an impressive "budda-deh-buddedeh" in my rear axle. There is a scintillating "chatcheteh-chatch-eteh" coming from a rear shock absorber, a soothing "toketah, toketah" from my radio antennae and a "tssshhhzbbbd" from my radio. And I may well have the only door that closes with a "puh-lox-ette-kuh." I have been assured by the service manager that, "dats duh way der bill...
...envelope manufacturer long active in the peace movement. He talked the idea over with Sam Brown Jr., 26, an lowan and former Harvard Divinity School student whom he knew from the McCarthy campaign. Brown persuaded Grossman that the businessman's first idea?a general strike on the traditional European model that would seek to stop the wheels of commerce entirely?was probably too audacious to succeed. Brown's instinct was that a quiet day of discussion and debate carried beyond the campus might well catch...
...days of Preston Sturges. Lester throws off sight gags and visual puns like some pyrotechnical pinwheel and molds character actors (Richardson, Roy Kinnear, the superb Michael Hordern) into a virtuoso stock company. But he also knows the value of good writing, and Charles Wood's script is a model of subdued rage and satiric precision. "I always used to say 'For Christ's sakes, drop it,'" Mum tells Dad as they reminisce about the bomb. "Now, Mum," Dad gently remonstrates, "that was only when you were tired...
McHarg grew up near Glasgow, hating the hideous city while exploring the handsome countryside around it. At 16, he decided to spend "a life giving to others the benison which nature gave to me." His model was Lancelot ("Capability") Brown, the 18th century landscape architect who transformed much of England into a showpiece of natural beauty before the onslaught of the Industrial Revolution. As McHarg fondly recalls, Brown was an ecological Faust. Once, on being asked to save Ireland, he grandly replied: "I have not yet finished England...
...novel idea of making inland waves for fun and profit came to a young Phoenix draftsman after a stay on the California coast in 1965. It took Phil Dexter a year to build his first model -in his backyard-and another year to get it working the way he wanted it. Clairol Inc., which uses surfing as a motif to promote hair coloring, put up the two million for the project. Now, two years later, it includes a 20-acre Polynesia-style complex of palms and high-roofed South Pacific huts housing shops, concessions and picnic areas...