Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside J-43, the cops found bodies of seven non-residents crammed under beds and behind doors. The eighth apparently knocked out the screen, and escaped to Leverett's roof. Questioning produced only that the group had heard "there was a party" in the House. With the eighth still on the roof, the squad herded the other bashful seven into Cambridge's Black Maria on charges of "trespassing...
While taking his ease at the bar of a Paris hotel, soft-spoken Playwright Tennessee (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) Williams was accosted by a reporter, pessimistically discussed his philosophy of dramatics. How much in today's stage plays or movies is really new? Replied Williams: "Everything has been said and resaid. I never write anything with the idea of putting any ideas into it, perhaps because I don't have any ideas. Mostly, I have a heart. I don't have any message any more." Do such beliefs lead to ambiguity in his work? Williams...
...play is at much its best in portraying the group life and the general problem, in such special circumstances, of two families living under one roof. Neither in the sudden moments of midnight terror nor in the explosions of cramped boardinghouse farce is there any prettifying. If Anne's father (beautifully played by Joseph Schildkraut) is disciplined and quiet, her mother can be excitable; Dussel the dentist is fussy, Mr. Van Daan greedy. Under Garson Kanin's skillful direction, there is no more of an attempt at heartbreaking gaiety than at lurid gloom; there is chiefly...
Though the new Continental has been redesigned from rubber to roof, it is deliberately reminiscent of its famed predecessor. The body is long (18 ft. 2 in.) and low (56 in.). The spare-tire mount, a hallmark of the old Continental, is now molded into the trunk lid. Under its 6-ft. hood is a souped-up Lincoln engine with an estimated 300 h.p. (because Ford wants to avoid a horsepower contest with other big cars, the exact figures are secret). Automatic transmission, power steering, power brakes and power windows are standard equipment; the sole optional feature is air conditioning...
...finest collection of Cyprian antiquities was in New York City. He wanted to see that and Niagara, he said, and nothing more. Freud spent his first days in the New World tramping around museum collections rifled from the Old. He visited Coney Island, dined at Hammerstein's Roof Garden, and was "quietly amused" by his first movie. Freud called America "a gigantic mistake," and wrote pettishly that "tobacco ... is the only excuse I know for Columbus' misdeed...