Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chicago at Los Angeles, Rain...
About two-thirds of the film shows this daily struggle, as the man and woman stagger and stumble up the island carrying their burden to the crops. In rain, in wind, in exhaustion, in mental agony, they courageously carry on. But after the fifth repeat of that same strikingly realistic climb, only a viewer doped up with No-Doz can avoid drowsiness, or even sleep...
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night poses so painful a threat to the U.S. postman as the common dog. Last year 7,372 mail carriers were bitten by Fido; many more were stayed by a snarl from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. But the postman is about to snap back...
Died. Alec Templeton, 52. blind Welsh-born concert pianist whose dry sense of humor led him to improvise satires of the old masters (he once fooled London critics into praising his hoked-up version of It Ain't Gonna Rain No More as an unknown work of Mozart), after which he traveled to the U.S. in 1935, where he was such a hit that he stayed to become a citizen in 1941 and the radio idol of 6,000,000 weekly listeners in the days when Jack Benny and the late Fred Allen provided the competition; of cancer...
...pattern of almost all of Germany's modern artists who were branded as decadent. He well remembers the night that he got back to his home in Solingen to find a heap of his paintings, which had been on exhibition, "standing in front of my door in the rain, having been thrown out of the gallery by the Brownshirts." But Meistermann's miseries had one positive twist. "In those days, my paintings reflected my darkened state of mind. They were full of heavy black lines. Suddenly, this gave me an idea." The lines were like the patterns...