Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some of this around. There are still faceless bettors with the thick glasses and hard rolls of hundreds with cigars and racing forms in their pockets accompanied invariably by young ladies who shovel in pate and attract large shiny stones called diamonds. Southern politeness, green lawns, and horses dictate pleasant atmosphere...
...Potomac reaches the nation's capital as a pleasant stream, and leaves it stinking from the 240 million gallons of wastes that are flushed into it daily. Among other horrors, while Omaha's meat packers fill the Missouri River with animal grease balls as big as oranges, St. Louis takes its drinking water from the muddy lower Missouri because the Mississippi is far filthier. Scores of U.S. rivers are severely polluted-the swift Chattahoochee, majestic Hudson and quiet Milwaukee, plus the Buffalo, Merrimack, Monongahela, Niagara, Delaware, Rouge, Escambia and Havasupi. Among the worst of them...
...SCENE'S symbolic content is perfectly accessible. Such devices as the cage and the lamp, together with Sternberg's handling of depth and sets, set up a pleasant and very restricted environment out of which Jannings' character develops. But the same symbols have a deeper meaning which, through their integration into Sternberg's dramatic and visual scheme, establishes the pattern of the entire film. In this system the attraction of light is a crucial motivation of personal behavior, and Jannings' blindness to the globe behind him appears simultaneously with a restriction of depth that expresses the limitations of his moral...
...Pleasant Flavor. First to go from the drugstores, and already decertified by the FDA, are many of the "combination drugs," so called because they contain two antibiotics, or an antibiotic and one of the sulfa drugs. In all, 48 combinations, made by 19 different manufacturers (including eight of the biggest in the U.S.), were decertified. These 48 happen to be minor items in the prescription trade, so their makers are not likely to put up much of a fight for them. Some contain streptomycin, which may cause deafness, especially in children, and so should never be used unless...
None of the dead fish have as yet floated down to the portion of the Charles adjacent to Harvard. After finishing a tour of those banks yesterday afternoon, and observer said, "Believe me, dead fish would be the most pleasant thing there. I saw dead rates, old sanitary napkins, and everything else but dead fish...