Word: rivet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since the opera singer is acted to the richly encrusted hilt by Eileen Herlie, a script that often plods as it perplexes, and that perplexes less and less as it proceeds, just manages to squeak through. With a stylish, long-discontinued look, Actress Herlie can rivet attention; with a bass-fiddle-deep laugh, she suddenly arouses laughter. The Guthrie treatment fares best when there is nothing much to treat: the air of secrecy proves more rewarding than the secret, the theatrical Herlie-burly than the philosophical coda. When the play finally turns serious, it seems, more than anything else, like...
Nourished by a generous soil and a benign climate, this open-toed, pastel empire last week beat with a great hum-thrumming vitality. On Wilshire Boulevard, rivet guns prattled into the fresh steel of new office buildings. The reiterated whop of the hammered nail rang out in a 6,000-house development on San Fernando farmland, in a 17,000-house subdivision in the tawny hills 40 miles to the southwest in Palos Verdes-and wherever bulldozers sliced down citrus groves to make room for more. From the swarms of workers in electronics and aircraft plants came one big, tumultuous...
...attempts to show that the Stanislavsky Method of acting is right at home on the range. The hero (Jack Palance), like so many disciples of The Method, is 1,000% sincere; he would not dream of speaking a line until he had lived it right down to the last rivet in his denims. The results are sometimes disconcerting...
...pieces of railway hardware and bodies. Tay fishermen dragged the river bed for more bodies. The victims were neatly laid out in the station waiting room, and dour Dundee turned out eagerly to watch the funereal spectacle. British Novelist-Newspaperman John Prebble has told the story of the disaster rivet by rivet-from the initial soundings, haphazard design and botched ironwork down to the penny pencil found on the body of a survivor and the last shilling compensation paid to relatives of the victims...
Conditions & Creditors. With all its fine-tooth preparation, the World Bank purposely takes a long time to negotiate a project, and follows it through to the final rivet. "We are accused of imposing a lot of conditions," says Black. "That is absolutely true. We are proud of it." In Thailand, for example, the bank agreed to finance modernization of the government-owned railway system only on condition that it be set up as an autonomous agency, free from any government interference...