Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Walter Reuther, 58, almost lost a finger at the place-a workshop on the grounds of his house in Rochester, Mich. Cabinetmaker Reuther, who fashions all his own furniture, was trimming a wooden light fixture when his hand slipped and the power saw zipped the tip from his ring finger. All patched up, Reuther went back to his U.A.W. desk job, chuckled at a telegram from the carpenters' union wondering what Walter thought he was doing scabbing at their trade...
JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. Director Federico Fellini (8½) stages a psychic three-ring circus in the mind of a troubled matron, played by Giulietta Masina...
There are the apple-cheeked girls in their travel-poster costumes, twirling their skirts and assorted petticoats, skipping through elaborate variations of Ring-around-a-rosie and London-Bridge-is-falling-down. There are the lordly males who do everything except side-straddle hops. They fling their bodies about the stage like bean bags-somersaulting, jackknifing, slapping their heels. Always they smile, smile, smile. It is all good fun and, despite the Slavic sameness of it all, for sheer exuberance and whoopee making the folk dancers from Eastern Europe are matchless. Americans apparently cannot get enough of them...
Galileo emerges as a hero as he defies the authorities and continues his work, until he is finally brought before the Inquisition. At that point, a messenger announces to his disciples that the bell of St. Mark's will ring at five o'clock sharp to signify that at five, the young scientists rejoice. But Brecht has the bell ring at 5:03 to simultaneously shatter their illusions and to show us how even super-men can be late. Thus Brecht toys with the tension build-up to make Galileo as much an anti-hero...
Bert Greenfield, a partner in Chicago's Fidelity Loan Bank, recalls a woman who pawned a necklace and ring for $25,000. "She came back recently to redeem her pledge and claimed she had doubled her investment...