Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tells them so hypnotically that the public pays him over $200,000 a year not to stop. He is the nightmare merchant of Broadway, writer of Orpheus Descending (murder by blow torch), A Streetcar Named Desire (rape, nymphomania, homosexuality), Summer and Smoke (frigidity), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (impotence, alcoholism, homosexuality), Sweet Bird of Youth (drug addiction, castration, syphilis), Suddenly Last Summer (homosexuality, cannibalism), and The Night of the Iguana (masturbation, underwear fetishism, coprophagy...
...Maggie, the scrappy cat on a hot tin roof, and Big Daddy, the bull-roaring lord and master of "28,000 acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile." Williams' dialogue sings with a lilting eloquence far from the drab, disjunctive patterns of everyday talk. And for monologues, the theater has not seen his like since the god of playwrights, William Shakespeare...
...walls of the test chambers are of sedimentary strata full of small pores. The irresistible pressure of a bomb's expanding fireball compresses this material, forming a spherical cavity holds its shape for 15-25 minutes; then the cooling gases lose their pressure. With a horrid noise the roof falls and all the way to the surface. With a horrid noise the roof falls, and all the way to the surface the layers of shook-up material tumble down after it. As the LASL News, house organ of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, describes it in somewhat unscientific terms...
...worry that Harvard purchased the Loeb Drama Center's ash trays at $60 apiece. Or that the same Drama Center has been little use at a University that three years ago badly needed an auditorium. Nor should an Architecture professor make it his exclusive concern that Quincy House's roof was designed to trap melting ice, or that inaptly placed columns and poor acoustics do not make Quincy's dining hall the theatre it was supposed to be, or that its House library has no room for expansion. Nor should the individual professor take too much time to worry about...
...industrial production." For continued economic expansion, the President asked Congress to approve acts to retrain workers for new jobs, help train and place youths entering the labor market, and grant an 8% tax credit for businesses investing in new machinery and equipment. Noting that "the time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining," he also asked Congress for standby authority to lower income tax rates in times of recession, speed up federal public works programs and strengthen the unemployment insurance system...