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Looking for a razor blade that will never dull? Keep on looking. But how about a light bulb that will last for five years? Last week General Electric introduced its "Electronic Halarc" bulb, a miniature version of the high-wattage metal halide lamps used for outdoor lighting, that will burn four times as long as incandescent bulbs on one-third the electricity...
...servants who have made parasitism an honorable profession; and promising young men who will go directly from dugout to jet. The economy of the town remains fairly simple. Villagers from the bush sell smoked monkey meat to steamer passengers. The money is used to buy pots, cloth and razor blades from the shops in town. The shopowners can then eat Bigburgers...
...film explores the duality of Doinel's nature; on one hand, he defends his solitude with a stubborn, irrational fervor: no, he will not leave his shirts or razor at his girlfriend Sabine's flat, even though doing so would put an end to his continual lateness at work. Yet he tracks down, seduces, and falls in love with this same woman, all from finding a photograph of her, ripped up on the floor of a telephone booth. He forgets that he and his wife Christine (Claude Jade) are to be divorced that morning. Yet as he and his wife...
Some of those musical riffs can be isolated as gestures, and Wylie teaches them all, many from his 1977 book Beaux Gestes. Pointing to the eye means "You can't fool me," and flicking the fingers across the cheek says "How dull," because the words for beard and razor (barbe, rasoir) have meant "boring" for more than a century. Pushing the nose upward means "It's so easy I could do it with my fingers up my nose." Drawing the tips of the fingers together and placing them in the palm of the other hand means "He's so lazy...
...most parts of the country, dangerous animals with sharp teeth and razor-like talons are kept inside cages. But in New Jersey tomorrow, one such animal, the Princeton Tigers tennis team, will be roaming free just about 88 feet from the Crimson netmen. The Harvard mission is not only to come out alive but to slay the Tigers, and grab a share of the Eastern League tennis title...