Word: rim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Molders. Marilyn in those days looked like nothing much at all, a glass of milk with some lipstick near the rim. The fascination of this picture is to watch the changes-not as they came over her, but as they were effected upon her by all the faceless image molders who, in the end, made the Pygmalion of legend seem by comparison a mass of clumsy thumbs. Under close and improving direction, her famous walk developed from something crudely virginal into something profanely sophisticated. Some unknown Corot reduced the red of her lips from a massive smear to a spot...
...Barnett flipped a spectacular reverse-spin shot into the basket and was fouled in the process. Barnett sank the free throw, and Boston's lead was only a point. The next basket would tell the story. Cousy floated a jump shot toward the basket. The ball banged the rim, caromed crazily into a tangle of flailing arms. A roar went up. Laker Rookie Gene Wiley had the rebound. Then a groan. Again, Tommy Heinsohn stole the ball, went up to shoot and was fouled by Wiley. Los Angeles fans chanted "Miss it! Miss it!" Heinsohn's hawklike face...
With 43 seconds on the clock Barnett contributed a three-point play which again reduced the Celtics margin to one point. Boston ate up time; Cousy took a jump shot from outside the key which hit the rim and bounced high into the air. LA got the crucial rebound--and lost it. Tom Heinsohn was fouled in the scuffle under the boards, and calmly sank a pair of foul shots which kept the NBA crown in its eternal home...
...last the lake burst upon us, a noble sheet of blue water . . . walled in by a rim of snow-clad mountain peaks that towered aloft full 3,000 feet higher still. As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface, I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords...
...favor of a more imaginative Italian proposal to cut the whole temple free of the rock and lift it to the top of the cliff by hydraulic jacks. Once raised above the rising water, the temple would be safe indefinitely, and it would have an attractive site on the rim of the great new artificial lake. The lifting would cost $42 million plus $24 million for finishing...