Word: sheeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vulgarity is only a minor concern of the critics; what shocks them is that, unlike Picasso, he has never really learned the tools of his trade. He handles the cape like a housewife flapping a bed sheet and uses the bright red muleta as if he were flagging down a train. Worst of all, he is so inept with the sword that about the only way he can be sure of killing the bull is to shoot it. He had to stab one bull 16 times this month before it would die, and twice within the past two weeks...
...already revised prices (mostly upward) on 20% of its products this year, usually by increasing the extra fees charged for finishing items to a customer's preferred size or weight. After inventories return to normal, it will probably tiptoe toward price boosts on such defense items as carbon sheet, bars, plates and tubes. Despite grumblings that the wage settlement with the union will cause a cost-price squeeze, steelmen know only too well that any dramatic increase in prices (such as $6 a ton) would run smack into Lyndon Johnson's determination to hold prices steady...
Glaciers move only inches a year and, besides, on orders of the Swiss government, Geologist Auguste Lombard last year examined Allalin and reported that the great ice sheet was retracting, not expanding...
...woman's hand slides into view across a sheet. A man's hand appears and clasps its wrist. Then his fingers languidly caress a knee, a shoulder, an elbow, a torso. And all in the clear, shadowless light of an operating room. At last the fragments of anatomy grow heads: Charlotte and Robert. They are lovers, and as they get dressed, they communicate in cool, laconic monotones, like intergalactic messages across the light years...
...that old feeling−wrist, knee, elbow, torso. This time Robert is in a rush. His plane leaves in 30 minutes, but he spends most of his time in a monologue on role playing v. real life. End of movie, with Charlotte's disembodied hand sliding across the sheet out of the screen and leaving it empty...