Word: razors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...therapy at a Paris sanatorium, and toward the bright end of self-realization. Rooks sees most of his life from a hospital bed in a series of intricate overlapping flashbacks that add up to a collage of visions, ranging from drug-inspired distortion to moments of near lucidity. A razor-sharp editing job and imaginative juxtaposition of black-and-white and color succeed as few films have in suggesting how alcoholic and narcotic hallucinations appear to the beholder...
...favorite writers of Guatemalan intellectuals; he had established himself, along with Brazil's Jorge Amado (Gabriela) and Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges (A Personal Anthology), as one of Latin America's most important literary voices. His first major novel, The President (1946), was a razor-edged indictment of Cabrera-style caudillismo. Three years later, he completed Men of Corn, an intense, poetic treatment of the poverty, hopelessness and dark mysticism that haunt the life of the Guatemalan Indian. Over the next ten years, he produced a trilogy of political novels that attacked widespread "Yankee economic imperialism...
...they are, the family resemblance is faint. Although the Vienna Philharmonic responded to Bernstein's exuberant beat with a reasonable facsimile of the razor-sharp New York sound, it played for Bohm with the familiar tone that has made it one of the outstanding groups in orchestral history...
Owing to the instant drop in barometric pressure, windows popped like overblown balloons. Crushed marble roofs provided Beulah with ready ammunition, and car windows throughout the town looked as if they had been sprayed by machine-gun fire. Freeway signs spun through the air like giant razor blades. As the storm passed on, the stench of oil from the ruptured tanks of sunken boats saturated...
...hopes to triple the volume of Berlin-Soviet trade this year, and Moscow's festival is sure to help. But though Berlin's fashion industry has made the biggest eastward strides, the city's Siemens and Telefunken electronics plants, its razor-blade factories and other industries are also sending salesmen behind the Iron Curtain. Last month East Germany ordered 1,500 railroad cars and $12.5 million worth of cable from West Berlin; the city in turn bought milk from nearby East German state farms, despite vehement objections from West Germany's powerful farmers' union...