Word: platinum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Platinum-haired Rene Carpenter, 35, wife of Triple Orbiter Malcolm Scott Carpenter, lunching with a Rotary Club group in Austin, Texas, admitted some drawbacks to being a highly publicized astronaut's lady whose husband is "sealed up in that paperweight." However, added Rene, "we do no more than the wives of helicopter crews in Viet Nam or the women the Thresher left behind. They risked just as much and lost a great deal more. Don't feel sorry for us. It's great to whisper at liftoff, 'Don't look back-we're with...
...heart of the instrument is a tiny square "thermistor," one-tenth of a millimeter on a side, small than a pin head, and attached to two hairlike platinum wires. The electrical resistance of the thermistor changes in response to tiny fluctuations in temperature. Special filters allow only a very narrow band of the infrared, between eight and 14 microns, to fall on the thermistor. The filter rejects the shorter infrared waves omitted by the sun and reflected by the moon. The earth's atmosphere, where water vapor, ozone and carbon dioxide absorb other portions of the infrared, also acts...
...worn psychological text that outward prudishness masks inward prurience. Prim, black-suited Dr. Antonio (Peppino de Filippo) is a self-constituted one-man vice squad who sees signs of obscenity everywhere. One sign that puts him into a puritanical dither is a huge billboard featuring a slinkily gowned, reclining platinum blonde who holds a mammoth glass of milk in her hand and endorses the consumption of that beverage. "Take her down," says Dr. Antonio to snickering city officials and discreet church fathers. One night, as Dr. Antonio tramps obsessively around the sign, the poster girl (Anita Ekberg) comes down...
...Ever since Adam," said the platinum blonde in the sequined sheath, "man has been the leader and woman has followed...
Harry Bogen (Elliott Gould) is a fox in a chicken coop. He breaks his fellow shipping clerks' strike, raids his former employer's staff to start his own dress firm, ditches his loyal girl friend for a platinum-pated actress, rooks his partners out of their life savings, and check-bounces the firm into bankruptcy to keep his sleek chick's wrists warm (with bracelets). But most of the time Harry is too homey to be unwholesome. He rushes home to Mama (Lillian Roth), counts on her for cooking, and sweeps her into an Oedipalsy song...