Word: pliant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perfect Patcher. A rubber paste that sets in a few hours to long-lasting pliant rubber was put on the market by Devcon Corp. Uses: to calk or waterproof boats, insulate wires, or patch holes in shoe soles. Price: 98? for a 4-oz. tube...
...began to get up to $2,500 a week for singing dates on the road. Jerry Lewis offered her $50,000 for a part in his new movie, Geisha Boy, then R. & H offered her $1,500 a week to play the part of Mei Li in Flower Drum. Pliant and outwardly submissive, yet inwardly serene and sturdy, Mei Li was Miyoshi. Now married to a former TV director, Win Opie, Miyoshi is certain that she wants to continue living in a land where it is really all right to look people in the eyes. "Is nice look at eyes...
...listeners inclined to an earlier, lusher and more lyrical Richard Strauss. Angel has a superb new Rosenkavalier (on 4 LPs). Strauss's swirling, silvery tunes never sounded better. Herbert von Karajan, conducting London's Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, is pliant and powerful; Singers Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Teresa Stich-Randall and Christa Ludwig are uniformly excellent. They invest their climactic closing trio with even more than its usual aching grandeur, while Otto Edelmann's Baron Ochs combines authority with the required asininity...
...swimming in the nude with nubile Victoria Blount, she almost drowns, and John is discovered by an entire house party as he sits astride her thighs applying artificial respiration. At school John is similarly arraigned by fate when a homosexual classmate slips into his bed. Instead of being totally pliant or totally repelled, John's mixed reactions create a hysteric scene. But it takes a country vacation with Victoria Blount and her mother to bring into the open an evil that has been only hinted at. John Blaydon, though innocent, becomes notorious in all England. John's parents...
Morocco's nationalists had been happy to use him in exile as a symbol; the question now was whether they were prepared to accept him in person, or would find him too pliant and suspect him of being manipulated by the French. That unanswered question moderated their welcome...