Word: rafted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like double-barreled punks in their double-breasted suits. Even in as recent a film as The Yellow Rolls-Royce, one of the breakup scenes was the appearance of George C. Scott as a 1930s hood, all decked out in a rakish, broad-brimmed white Panama and a Raft-shouldered, double-breasted suit. But laugh softly and take a long second look. For the newest male mode is nothing less than a reissue of Hollywood's dependable old Double...
Most fascinating innovation is the water skier's first do-it-yourselfer, Roto-motive Industries' Ski-Craft ($795). It consists of a 24-h.p. engine mounted on a streamlined flotation raft that pulls along the skier at the end of 8-ft.-long handles. The skier controls the speed with a hand throttle; if he takes a spill, this releases the throttle, stopping the engine and bringing the craft to a halt within a few feet...
When a comedy is still vital after three decades, it cannot be living on gags alone. Something in You Can't Take It With You stirs the get-away-from-it-all urge in the American psyche. Call it the raft complex, that free-floating armistice from all workaday concerns that Huck Finn declared as he drifted down the Mississippi. Whitman distilled that spirit when he wrote: "I loafe and invite my soul...
...Lyndon's bash. All the Republicans could think about was new amendments to the bill. For example, Kansas' Bob Dole introduced an amendment to give the First Lady rather than the Secretary of Commerce the power to enforce the beautification bill. It got nowhere. Nor did a raft of other G.O.P. amendments. The more the Democrats tried to choke off the beautification debate, the angrier the opposition became...
...Sour Notes. At last week's annual High Fidelity Music Show at Manhattan's Trade Show Building, there was a raft of compact all-in-one hi-fi units that cost between $200 and $400 and almost never sound a sour note. With two bookshelf-sized stereo speakers and one compact changer-amplifier unit, the new small-fi's can fit almost anywhere, be operated by the wife and the kids, and still give Dad the kind of sound that he yearns...