Word: propellent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...danger of forgetting what the movie is about. Rarely has an actress invested her beauty with so much variety and expressiveness. Miss Leigh's performance starts in her face and works outward, refusing to compromise Scarlett's bitch-coldness with an appeal to sympathy. War and poverty violently propel her into adulthood, giving her no time to mature; beneath the ruthless woman, Miss Leigh always betrays traces of the spoiled young girl. She is not alternately shrewd and charming, but both at once, too huge a character to elicit either admiration or scorn...
According to the charge, Wolfson, his associates and his family controlled both Continental and the patent to an aerosol-dispensing device called Propel-Pak. They swapped the licensing rights on the patent to Continental in return for 35% to 40% of royalties from sub-licensing contracts. Then, says U.S. District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, Continental used publicity to puff the price of the stock from $2.75 to $8.50 a share. During and just after the publicity drive, Wolfson sold off 407,000 shares, and his family and friends-including Gerbert, who placed the sell orders with eight different firms-sold...
Super Magnets. EMS 1 is the brainchild of Westinghouse Mechanical Engineer Stewart Way, a specialist in magnetohydrodynamics. As far back as 1958, he recalls, "I had a hankering to develop an electrical submarine without propellers or jets." But in those days there was one insurmountable problem: to develop a magnetic field strong enough to propel a full-size sub, Way calculated, would require a conventional magnet weighing 500,000 tons-almost 80 times as heavy as an entire Polaris submarine. Working out some method of propelling a small-scale experimental sub seemed a waste of time...
Many of the folks then buzzed off to the Beverly Hilton Hotel for the big Academy ball. Two Secret Service men had to propel Lynda and George past squads of photographers so that the young couple could have a few whirls on the dance floor. Mrs. Mamie Washington couldn't make it. The kids were tired, and, well, there was so much to savor from the day's events. She'll be back next year, though. You won't catch her quitting show business...
...order to propel his close-knit cast through a long, fragmentized narrative, Director Lumet has to bob around a good deal, ticker-taping a chatty alumnae newsletter across the screen like subtitles in a foreign movie, sometimes cutting from character to character as though he were taking an opinion poll. Linking political and social history to the girls' private affairs also creates momentary strain, since the audience cannot really profit much from learning that the German army has attacked Poland just after good ole Pokey (Mary-Robin Redd) delivers her second set of twins. Although The Group...