Word: rip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reaches that class, Ed Stone will have an explanation. "I was like Rip Van Winkle, asleep in the hills, until I came down and Maria brought me back to life," he exclaims. "I think the work I have done in the last five years-which I consider to be the most significant architecture I have done-can be directly attributed to my happy marriage. I was on a creative plateau for several years preceding my marriage." One mark of Stone's affection: in 1954 he threw away the martini pitcher that had dogged him since college days...
...High Cost of Loving. The hilarious private life of a rising young white-collar couple, described by Scriptwriter Rip Van Ronkel and Actor-Director José Ferrer (TIME, March...
...important fault: it plays its satire too safe. But the script, by Rip Van Ronkel, is written with a nice sense of pace. The camera, moreover, is wittily used. The long, slow start in which the husband and wife go through the motions of getting ready for work is a piece of slickly observed americana. The acting is sound, too, even in the side parts. Best of all is the work of Director José Ferrer, who has even managed to coax a graceful, flexible performance out of wooden-faced Leading Man José Ferrer...
...light." But the light of the life of Theodore Roosevelt no American could put out. Even as he was dying, his country was throbbing with new vitality and new hope. Even as he was dying, his last words to the American people were read to a rip-roaring ail-American benefit at the Hippodrome in New York. Said Theodore Roosevelt: "I cannot be with you. and so all I can do is wish you Godspeed...
...Density. Why not tear down the slums and simply replace them with public housing units? Says Dilworth: "Already, 60% of public housing is located in the Negro slum areas. It would take $800 million to rip out the Philadelphia slums. You'd reduce the density by one-half, and you'd have no place to put the rest of the people." Adds Bill Rafsky: "As soon as we displace the Negroes, we run up against discrimination in housing." Example: South Philadelphia, where the big Italian communities are fighting Negro inroads...