Word: rub
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most dazzling new sight in Paris is-Paris. For decades, the face of the city was as grey as its ubiquitous cats. But since 1959, squads of yellow-slickered workmen have scrambled up metal scaffoldings to hose down and sand-rub buildings and monuments encrusted with the industrial soot of the 20th century. The grime fighters have now cleaned more than a third of Paris' buildings, and visitors to Paris are discovering a beauteous city they never saw before, the city that De Balzac called the color of cream...
...course, Randall has to explain all the whimsical phenomena to his fiancée, Barbara Eden. This chore convinces him that nothing that comes out of the Bottle is worth what goes into it. He's quite right too. Audiences may choose to stay home where they can rub their television sets and hope for a miracle...
...finish, with gags that might have been written by a UNESCO pamphleteer. Sometimes the movie simply stops to preach. "This baby feels hunger and cold and loneliness, just like you and me," says Bob. "I can't see anything funny about this situation." And there's the rub. Or the rash. To help Hope out in the pinches, a group of seductresses billed as The Global Girls troops through: Yvonne De Carlo as a Spanish floozy whose secret weapon is flamenco; Lilo Pulver as a brusque, weepy vodkaholic making a case for the U.S.S.R.; Miiko Taka...
...chief hero, the man who has shown Negroes the way to make themselves most effective. Critics charge that Alinsky is an agitator, and Alinsky proudly agrees; he uses nearly any method for making authorities miserable-rent strikes, demonstrations, marches on city hall. His stated intent is to "rub raw the sores of discontent" in order to inspire a depressed community to act to help itself. Silberman argues that it is this individual participation in action that alone can give Negroes a real sense of their own dignity. "It is in the act (or the means) of working for freedom...
...year as the market pauses every once in a while to catch its breath. But with the U.S. economy looking stronger than ever and the stock market so free of speculative excesses, only a few cold-nosed bears still sniff a sharp price break in 1964. Most Wall Streeters rub their hands with glee when they behold the market still so full of untapped values, of stocks selling at only 14 or 15 times the company's earnings. The most common prediction on the Street: the Dow-Jones will hit 880 before year...