Word: rising
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nice when things go smoothly on a movie set-when temperament doesn't rise up and take over. Note the scene in Italy, for instance, where Marcello Mastroianni, 43, and Faye Dunaway, 27, are filming A Place for Lovers for Vittorio De Sica. She helps him with his English. He helps her with Italian slang. They both help each other with their diets. They trade compliments: he likes her eyebrows, she likes making movies in his country. And there haven't even been any of those snippy romance-is-in-the-air rumors buzzing around. Says Faye...
Determining the other coordinate is a more complicated matter of listening for a so-called Doppler shift in frequency. If the echo comes from the side of the planet spinning toward Earth, it will rise in frequency, just as the whistle of an approaching train seems to move up in pitch. If the reflection comes from the side rotating away from Earth, it will go down in frequency...
...gross national product, created new structures valued at $1 trillion?and that's a 13-figure number. In the past decade, Houston, for instance, has packed 17 major new structures into a 20-square-block area. Los Angeles has overcome its earthquake fears and built 107 high-rise office buildings. Denver has put up one new office building per year, while Manhattan boasts no fewer than 135 new office structures...
...reality. The American metropolis seems constantly to be tearing itself down and building itself up again. The din and confusion of building has become a built-in part of the city's confusion. Everywhere old towers crumble, excavations appear, followed by the quick climb of high steel skeletons. They rise straight from the busy city streets, the clusters of trucks, cement mixers and cranes hopelessly aggravating the snarl of traffic. Amid all this there arise new questions about the price of progress...
...third and last phase of the service, each participant was told by McGaw to rise, gaze into the eyes of his fellow group members, and "reach out and touch them in any way-a handshake, a hand on a shoulder, even an embrace." After 30 seconds they were to tell each neighbor in the circle "what they honestly admire, respect and perhaps even love in him." McGaw described the touch-and-tell, which was interspersed with appropriate Bible readings, as "a different form of sermon...