Word: rig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jack Paar and ten U.S. ambassadors. First, Norton snaps Polaroid pictures of the client front and side. Then, he drapes him in a Rube Goldberg contraption made out of wire rods, cloth tapes and spirit levels (to spot a dropping shoulder); it takes eight minutes just to get the rig on, after which Norton spends up to half an hour taking 25 separate measurements. "If they were standing at attention at the beginning, they relax by the end; so the risk of missing a comfortable fit is less," explains Norton...
...have it that it was solved with a combination of a zoom lens and a dolly-back. When I asked the trick department how much it would cost, they said it would cost $50,000.00 for the one shot, because they'd have to take a rig above the staircase to take the camera up and the zoom forward. It was very elaborate. So I said to the trick department, Yes, but there's no one on the set. Why don't we make a miniature of it, then lay it on its side, and do the same thing from...
...producers. In any case, Lowe noted, it is "ridiculous and incredible to believe that Carol Channing should need any help," because in both the Nielsen and Arbitron ratings, her special outdrew the second-place show in the time slot by millions of viewers. And even if somebody wished to rig the ratings, it would seem ridiculous for him to pay by check...
...that Tyonek elders have put on education and jobs. The village council authorized a $5,000 grant for everybody on the tribal roll, specified that most of it had to be applied toward home construction-except when invested in schooling. Already three Tyonek Indians have enrolled to study oil-rig work in California, another has learned diesel engineering in Chicago. Moreover, every construction contract entered into by the village provides for the hiring of local residents, many of whom are thereby learning to be carpenters, plumbers and electricians...
...discomfort, and on the second day no pain at all. Within ten days he was walking to the barber shop, several blocks away; the next week the surgeons removed the stitches and snapped a new socket snugly to the stump, which had never been appreciably swollen. With this temporary rig, Myers went dancing. Last week orthopedic engineers machined a permanent artificial leg on which Myers wears an ordinary shoe, and he walks well without canes...