Word: oak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home. Lyons is ready for his nightly round of clubs and restaurants. At "21," he notes: "There's a recession-only three Rolls-Royces outside." He drops in on Fiddler on the Roof for the "80th time-and each time I cry." At the Plaza's Oak Room, Non-Drinker Lyons walks past the bar: "You can tell how good business is by how many olives are left...
Although scientists complain that the Atomic Energy Commission, along with the Department of Defense and NASA, gets a disproportionate share of federal research funds, the AEC itself has had to shut down its molten-salt breeder reactor at Oak Ridge. The Bureau of the Budget simply did not release $3,000,000 authorized for it by Congress. This was especially dismaying to environmentalists, because the breeder reactor promises, eventually, to be the cleanest and most efficient fuel source for electric power...
...Hallman, a Zen Buddhism enthusiast, used 100 lbs. of yarn for his African-looking hut. "My idea was to make an environment that was comfortable, soft, with neutral colors and a calming effect," he says. The hit of the show is Furniture Designer Wendell Castle's laminated oak "reclining space for one." Open a marvelously sculptured door and there is a snug, carpeted cubbyhole with furry throw pillows. A hole in the top lets in light and air. "When you get inside," El-Zoghby says, "it's almost like being in your mother's womb. The more...
Does your article mean to ignore what most critics still agree was one of the best and most "real" of all war films, In Which We Serve? And what about the simple, heartbreakingly "real" Brief Encounter? Or Fumed Oak? Or Post Mortem? Or one of his earliest-The Vortex, an in tense, psychological drama? And are the serious, sentimental and romantic musicals like Bi tersweet and Conversation Piece to be dismissed as part of the legend which "dashes off pages of decadent dialogue before breakfast...
...blushed, and gingerly pushed at the heavy oak paneling-the kind he had always wanted for his study...