Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instance, most of us are so disposed to admire the work of Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan that when Bentley points out how author and director got in each other's way in the production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the revelation comes as something of a shock. But Bentley is right: Williams did write what might be called a "dirty" play, and Kazan did do his best to dress it up in grandeur and golden light. And Bentley is right because, unlike most other drama critics writing today, he can see the implications of a production...
This was too much. The Libyan government asked him to leave. The irrepressible colonel refused to. When Libyan police surrounded the Egyptian embassy, the colonel took up position on the roof with a machine gun, while leaflets poured out into the streets of Tripoli exhorting the citizens to protest. For three days the siege went on, with the colonel appearing at intervals on the roof to flourish his machine gun and peer hopefully down the street for rioting demonstrators to answer his call. None came, and Colonel Sadek disconsolately agreed to depart...
...waiter balancing a tray of champagne, he raises his left hand as if he were conferring a blessing on the spectators. His blue eyes narrow, he inches his left foot back toward the center of the circle like a burglar feeling his way down off a porch roof in the dark. Suddenly he ducks low. His eyes squint almost shut, and with a furious burst of energy he scrapes his whole body in a whirling drive across the circle. The shot seems to explode from his hand to the sound of a monumental grunt. Fully three-quarters of Parry...
KILLARNEY VACATION haven will be developed by James Robertson, Florida buyer of 163-acre island in Killarney's lower lake (TIME, Aug. 20). Real Estate Broker Robertson will build 20 thatched-roof, ranch-type bungalows of eleven rooms each, offer them for sale at $42,000 to $56,000 apiece...
...started, as far most local historians can remember, sometime around the Second World War. Written records are scarce and biased, but the consensus seems to be that a CRIMSON editor was badly injured by a fall from the Lampoon roof while either stealing the bird or attempting to return it after it had been stolen...