Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Raise High the Roof Beam, Salinger...
...camera seems to go beyond seeing: it touches, it breathes the dark air. Welles creates drama and visual beauty with the camera by moving it expertly. The sets are superb, from the defense lawyers cluttered, echoing house to K.'s office, a thousand identical typists under a high roof, with darkness showing through the open walls. There is thoroughly appropriate, unobtrusive music by Jean Ledhut...
Nothing is more certain to send an editor through the roof than to see his exclusive stories turn up without credit in the next edition of the rival newspaper or hear them on a local radio station's newscast. The practice is so widespread and so deep-rooted in tradition that most editors do no more than fume about it. One who did is Managing Editor Shandy Hill of Pennsylvania's Pottstown Mercury, who was irked for years by what he claimed was the lifting of his news items by a local broadcaster. After a long battle with...
...making it almost impossible for the different sections of the chorus to hear each other. Some accoustical problems, however, could not be anticipated or prepared for. On the day of the concert, after three sunny rehearsal days at Tanglewood, the rains came. The sound of the droplets on the roof and the birds chirping outside the shed gave the chorus unexpected competition...
...joined the Republican Na Fianna Eireann, a sort of Boy Scout underground. Two years later, when the Irish Republican Army occupied the Dublin post office at the start of the botched 1916 Easter Week rising, Sean was the youngest rebel of them all, spent four days on the roof with a rifle, waiting for the British to mount an old-fashioned infantry charge. He says wryly: "I'm afraid we had rather naive ideas about modern warfare." When British shells ended the fiasco, 15 Irish leaders were shot. Young Lemass was taken prisoner and released within a month, presumably...