Word: scratches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lessons from the velvet-voiced sophisticates. The work of top artists and crack color photographers is being used to a far greater extent than ten years ago-if only to dramatize the why-buy copy underneath. Black, blustering headlines are yielding to airy typography. Clinical claims ("Guard Against Throat-Scratch") are fast disappearing...
...harpsichords, and a sound like a Hawaiian guitar quivering on the breeze. To play these tricks, Pianists Ferrante and Teicher not only mute the strings with wads of paper, bits of wood and metal bars, but also pluck the strings while holding down keys for resonance, and even scratch the strings with their fingernails. For all their eccentric behavior. Teicher and Ferrante are master technicians and men of taste; the performances in Soundproof are honed and burnished to perfection...
...from starting ... at scratch in 1945," says the Rand report, "the Russians should not have been, by that time, too far behind the knowledge and skill that had been achieved in the United States . . . Instead of being surprised that the Russians got the atomic bomb as early as they did, we should perhaps have been surprised that it took them so long...
...does, but her spitfire independence ("Do not let me bend my head, O God, ever") turns their love affair into a contest of wills. Jean is an urbane Don Juan, and Hélène wants to scratch her initials in his hide so deeply that they will never heal. Yet even as their love grows in intensity and understanding, they are not above betraying each other with other lovers...
...earth's most challenging peaks, few Asians consider climbing a sport. To them, the exploits of such men as Sir Edmund Hillary are part of an outlandish philosophy; they would never climb Everest simply "because it is there." Often enough in the high Himalayas, devout Buddhists scramble and scratch their way to the top of middling high peaks-but for a perfectly practical reason: those who make such a pilgrimage earn unlimited credit in the eyes of their gods...