Word: seamless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seamless Web. Author McLuhan is a University of Toronto professor and literary critic, who writes books (first was The Gutenberg Galaxy) to prove that books are responsible for most of the ills of modern man. Nationalism, war, industrialization, population explosion, the breakdown of human relations in urbanized chaos-McLuhan blames them all on Gutenberg's invention of movable type, and the resulting growth of both the audience and the technology for communication-by-print...
...department manager. His parents provide him with a bowler, a pinstripe, suit that conceals his bowlegs, nylon underwear that crackles when he walks, and a small "pied a terre" (or, foot in the grave) in Kensington. He learns the sales spiel handily enough ("A beautiful shoe, madam, seamless uppers, a discreet buckle and a soft dimple toe, and for a foot like yours with so little adhesion between the phalanges of the toe and the metatarsal joint . . ."), but he is desperately unhappy. Bernard has no friends. He burns with hopeless, timid lusts. He lingers before the posters advertising "Running Without...
...economic recession, overcapacity and a cutback in Government stockpiling, has not looked very glamorous since 1958. But rising U.S. wealth has brought back some of the shine to aluminum. Nowadays it seems to be almost everywhere, from towering curtain-wall skyscrapers to a whole new family of seamless, zip-top, snap-top and soft-top aluminum cans. Though profits have not yet kept pace, production is running at 95% of capacity, and shipments have risen 11% so far in 1963, to an annual rate of 3,100,000 tons...
...many. Production of aluminum cans will double this year to 160 million Ibs., and President John D. Harper of Alcoa, the giant of the industry, figures that next year the metal will be used in 75% of all beer cans. Alcoa is also perfecting a process in which seamless aluminum cans can be formed in a single operation from one small disc of metal, and is working toward a kitchen triumph: the first easy-to-open sardine...
...conceived "a comedy to end all comedies." What has evolved after several years of preparation is $9,400,000 worth of unpalatable entertainment, more star-laden than Judgment at Nuremberg and longer (though sometimes less amusing) than On the Beach. Filmed in 70 mm. Ultra Panavision and the new seamless, single-lens Cinerama, Kramer's epic can rightly be called a blockbuster-the blocks busted or severely strained during its marathon frenzy include those of three Plymouths, four Fords, two Dodges, one Jeep, a Chrysler Imperial and a Chevrolet...