Word: raisins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year. A Salinas firm has just started making a phrenological lettuce picker-it feels each head to determine if it is ripe-invented by agricultural engineers at the University of California. Other promising machines: a contraption that shakes peaches off trees into an inverted canvas umbrella, one that picks raisin grapes from trellised vines, one that plucks ripe cantaloupes from the earth while leaving green melons to mature...
...black comedy," which stars Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Martyn Green, Robert Shaw and George Voscovec. The Diamond Orchid spans the last 37 months in the life of an Eva Perón. Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, her first play since Raisin in the Sun, is about a Greenwich Village newspaper publisher, played by Mort Sahl in his first straight Broadway role...
...blessed with good parents. Both her carpenter father and her milliner mother encouraged Diana in her ambition to become an actress, enrolling her in Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts. She sharpened her skill on an enviable series of supporting parts, won awards for her performance in Raisin in the Sun as a zany coed running a high fever in her frontal lobes and raves from the critics for her performance as a whore in last season's Tiger Tiger Burning Bright. She labored in television's well-trampled vineyard, in roles ranging from...
...freight loader in Edge of the City was both laughing boy and leader, with the universal quality that inspires followers, much like the high school student he played in Blackboard Jungle. His trapped, foolish, ambitious, odds-against-him young husband in A Raisin in the Sun was an agonized study in subhysterical frustration. In Lilies of the Field, his smolderings are banked far down beneath the surface of his easygoing life, but he manages to reveal them in a word here, a gesture there...
...hear the clatter of a drawn gun on bars like a stick dragged along a picket fence. "They'll be no damn singing in this jail!" came the shout. We got handcuffs to lock ever' one a you to the bars. Y'all shut up an' stay shut up--raisin' san' when we got to work...