Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maneuvers near Jolon, Calif, last week, the Army's 2nd Infantry Division set out to destroy an "enemy" missile-launching site whose concrete roof, 14 feet thick, had defied aerial bombing. In a hit-and-run raid, the G.I.s hypothetically turned the site into a radioactive crater...
...Bermuda House," weighing 185 Ibs. and made of aluminum screening tightly stretched over a light aluminum frame, was put on sale by Durall Products Co. of York, Pa. Price: $349.50, including canvas roof...
...Roof (by Tennessee Williams) shows again what potentialities its author has and demonstrates what power. But it remains a demonstration rather than an achievement. There is no question how hard Williams can hit, or how vividly he can write, or that, in a theater full of feigned and borrowed emotions, his are honestly hot and angry. But his own feelings, often intemperate, work against him. Perhaps it is the revenge of an age of violence on those who mirror it, that they should themselves seem violent where they mean to be intense, should too often mistake blind assault for implacable...
Much of Elia Kazan's staging adds force and vividness, and so does much of the acting-particularly Burl Ives as the doomed father and Barbara Bel Geddes as the desperate wife, insecure as a cat on a hot tin roof...
...outsized mud hut, and its lofty vaults and arches were modeled after palm trees. The altar was made of two rough boulders topped by a monolith and the simple carved benches resembled witch doctors' ritual chairs. With its glassless windows admitting light and air and its roof covered with brilliant emerald tiles, the church seemed like a cool spot in the jungle...