Word: sheeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Losers, the second play, a middle-aged carpenter goes calling on a lady (Anna Manahan) with an outsize heart and a waist to match. Upstairs, her invalid mother sits clutching the bedclothes about her like a winding sheet, praying fanatically to St. Philomena, ringing a huge bell whenever the couple begin a furtive smooch. Marriage only makes things worse-until one day Carney spies a traumatic headline. Roaring drunk, he announces to the old crone that the Pope has quashed the cult of St. Philomena. Carney deposes a statue of the saint from its altar, insults his wife, and climbs...
...spent millions on fashion; Faye Dunaway makes 31 smashing costume changes, while Steve McQueen appears in $350 suits and consults a $2,250 Patek Philippe watch. The screen that exhibits them is a flashy replay of Expo 67 techniques, fragmenting into scores of tiny separate images like a mint sheet of stamps, or simultaneously showing five characters in five different places...
...papa of all this theatrical enterprise was born Joseph Papirofsky 47 years ago in the tough Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, where his father was a trunkmaker from Poland and his mother a seamstress from Lithuania. After high school and some 20 miscellaneous jobs, including short-order cook and sheet-metal worker, he served a four-year hitch in the Navy and used the G.I. bill to join the Actors Laboratory Theater in Hollywood. In 1954, back in Manhattan as stage manager for CBS-TV, Papp organized an unsalaried Shakespeare workshop in the basement Sunday-school room of a church...
Animated Display. To demonstrate their compound's wide capability, RCA researchers sandwiched a thin film of the liquid crystals between two sheets of glass. The inner surface of each sheet was coated with a transparent electrical conducting material. When a small negative charge was applied to one sheet and a positive charge to the other, so much turbulence was caused inside the liquid crystals' molecular structure that the film turned instantly opaque. Next, in a more complicated display, the conducting surfaces were divided into a mosaic of squares, each separately linked to the external power source; this enabled...
...Motors. G. M. three weeks ago revealed that after two years of "top priority" work by its Fisher Body division, it was installing a guard rail on the doors of more than half of next year's models. The rail, actually an 8-in. section of high-strength sheet metal, will be welded out of sight inside the door. In the event of an impact on the side of the car, the rail will give way gradually but with resilience enough to deflect the oncoming automobile and cut down the danger to the occupants of the struck...