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...Wave western, using simple realism as their strongest tool. They evoke it with sounds: a transistor radio in de Wilde's shirt pocket twanging hillbilly anthems, the slamming of a screen door on a hot night, the screak-screak of the ice-cream freezer on the back porch, the relentless whistling of the wind scorching in off the plains, the brutal whump of the springs of the Cadillac as it guns across the railroad tracks. They also evoke it with the black-and-white camera of Old Master James Wong Howe: Dr. Pepper signs, juke joints, a greased...
...does the information from these sources always filter through the thick complexity of daily life. One evening a friend and I were sitting on the porch of our boarding house chatting with one of the neighbors. After reminiscing about her first husband, whom she married in 1915, and asking us whether the sinking of the Titanic preceded World War I or II, she wanted to know whether we thought there would be another war. We muttered and rambled for a while, until she asked us: "Who is it that's so strong now? Germany...
...belonged the honor of being the first American ever to set foot on the top of the world. "Some change will come out of all this," said his wife last week. "I can't imagine Jim going to work and coming home again and having dinner on the porch, just...
...around a list of grievances which, according to the text, contribute to familial unhappiness. "Look at this number 48 on the list," he urged. "Now this 'slovenly in appearance' is terribly important. How many times have you been walking down the street and seen a woman sweeping up the porch, looking totally unkempt. And how many times do you imagine a husband will come home early and find his wife looking slovenly? Now this is the kind of thing that can be avoided. It's not a question of income, but of your breeding and your training and your emotional...
...large company can avoid becoming specialized," says onetime Ford Executive William Porch, now vice president of Detroit's Fenestra Inc., a maker of building products. In small companies, which usually cannot afford a broad spectrum of specialists, young executives often work simultaneously in marketing, advertising and accounting, sometimes carry out complex negotiations involving labor contracts, mergers and loans. Small companies promote the idea of sharing an expanding future, and are more apt to offer their executives stock options. Some are also beginning to pay higher salaries than many larger companies...