Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house was like none ever built before. Its roof was a honeycomb of tiny solar cells that used the sun's rays to heat the house, furnish all the electric power. Doors and windows opened in response to hand signals; they closed automatically when it rained. The TV set hung like a picture, flat against the wall-so did the heating and air-conditioning panels. The radio was only as big as a golf ball. The telephone was a movielike screen, which projected both the caller's image and voice. In the kitchen the range broiled thick steaks...
During this span, McGinnis had been breezing along, having allowed the Cadets only one hit, a single in the third. In the fifth, however, the roof caved in, as Army tallied four times on two walks, three singles, a sacrifice fly, and a costly Simourian error on a double play ball. Brigham relieved McGinnis to get the third out of the inning...
...Mart Floor-Covering Show hired a daring rigger to dress as a sultan, hover over the city on a linoleum "flying carpet" suspended from a helicopter. When fog and rain cut visibility, the sultan had to be dangled instead on a boom from the Mart's 353 ft. roof...
...story structure and scene timing, but rather less flair (in this film, at any rate) for the less intellectual aspects of the art-atmosphere and character. As for Gazzara. who made his Broadway reputation in End As a Man, A Hatful of Rain and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, this picture has already given him a Hollywood name as the most huggable heavy to come down the pike since Humphrey Bogart was young...
Before destiny sideswipes him, the lean, fiftyish Pippin is content to live on his unearned income and enjoy a nightly orgy of stargazing from the roof of his Parisian town house. More concierge than wife, Mme. Héristal rations out new telescopes with a parsimonious hand. Daughter Clotilde, 20, is addicted to Hollywood horse operas and has already Saganalyzed her life in a bestseller written at 15, Adieu...