Word: ropes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years that Miss McKenna has been seen in this country, she has done a superlative job in two recent plays, Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden and Morton Wishengrad's The Rope Dancers. But she has also recreated an impressive number of classic roles. She has given us a warm Sister Juana and a wonderful Maggie Wylie; and an unmatchably transcendent Saint Joan, which may serve as a yardstick for all future performances by an actress. In Shakespeare, she has now offered us a memorable Hamlet (yes, the title role!), Viola, and Lady Macbeth. And I have not cited...
...complete, as one climber noted, "with a handy garbage disposal - a 1,600-ft. drop." Ahead lay two deadly perils: a pair of giant, swelling domes of blue ice that left them as exposed to the fickle Alaskan weather as flies on a wall. Some 1,700 ft. of rope hammered into the ice took them across in safety. Then came Camp Paradise, the first piece of flat slope they had seen in several thousand feet; Camp Fatigue, when at 15,000 ft. the altitude started to hit them; Balcony Camp, up another 1,800 ft. and just big enough...
...Also Rises In high-ceilinged studios and sunny flats littered with children's toys, a new kind of American-artist-abroad is at work in Italy these days. Scorning the cognac-and-champagne antics of Hemingway's Lost Generation the American in Rome shuns a beard, rope shoes, and pants held up by a length of clothesline, prefers a walkup on Rome's outskirts to a garret on arty Via Margutta ( "too expensive and too phony") Work for Kicks. There are an estimated 500 U.S. painters, sculptors and writers in Italy today. Living on shoestring savings...
...World War II found that their arrival set off a tremendous religious movement. The natives killed all their pigs-principal sources of food and symbol of social position-in the belief that after three days of darkness, "Great Pigs" would appear from the sky. Imitation radio antennas made of rope and bamboo were set up to receive news of the millennium, when black skins would turn white and all the harsh demands of life would miraculously disappear...
...Goldberg complexity: the churning ice pushes against a tall pole stuck into the frozen river; the downriver drag on the pole tenses a wire running from the pole to a clockhouse on the river bank; the pull of the wire trips a weighted meat cleaver, which cuts through a rope, triggering a device that stops a clock at the winning instant...