Word: reels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gillette is also testing a cartridge razor in which the shaving surface is a continuous reel in place of individual blades; the shaver turns a knob to advance the reel when an edge becomes dull...
They already are. But the Sydney System, as they call it, only sounds simple. The gambler plays a machine until he gets a high-scoring symbol on the reel farthest to his left. Then, after inserting another coin, he gingerly eases the handle forward until he feels tension, pauses, eases the handle even more gingerly farther down until he hears two clicks, returns handle to its normal position and gives it a sharp, final yank. If expertly performed, this maneuver freezes the lefthand symbol, usually brings up a corresponding symbol on the second reel as well. If not, repetition...
...first touch of the hook, enraged steelies will "tail-walk" like marlin, leap like tarpon 5 ft. above the water, run like bonefish-stripping 150 yds. of line off a screaming reel in one lightning burst. They have even been known to rush a boat and leap over the fisherman's head in a frantic effort to escape. The battle may last anywhere from 15 min. to an hour-and steelies get more tricky as they tire. Then they will bulldog to the river bottom and jam their heads in the gravel until the hook rubs...
...long ago, even lewdly ogles the women in a plush beauty salon. While Tony skitters about, fighting the impulse to take his best friend in his arms and kiss him, Charlie wards off the advances of Pat Boone (sacred love) and Walter Matthau (profane). By the last reel, he/she/it has turned up in a more felicitous incarnation. Too late, though. Public apathy is apt to send Charlie off to the boneyard reserved for classic Hollywood fumbles...
...film's choicest surprise occurs in the last reel or so, when Hayley blithely outwits 69-year-old Pola Negri, femme fatale of the silent era. In her first film since 1943, Temptress Negri, coddling her pet cheetah aboard an improbable yacht, plays an eccentric millionairess with a passion for jewels. Her bizarre, spoofing comeback points up a new worldliness in Disney, who has obviously decided that what was grand passion for Grandpa is just good clean fun for the kids...