Word: shockproof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Contemporary audiences are largely unshockable; to build up enough pressure to get a laugh, humorists have begun to abandon sex to take up the grave topic of death, as in The Loved One, proudly promoted as a picture "with something to offend everyone." Yet audiences have generally proved shockproof to spoofs on death and destruction; they do not laugh because they understand, and says Playwright (A Thousand Clowns) Herb Gardner, "The worst killer of laughter is too much" understanding...
...quality of training has improved along with the caliber of the players, according to Fadden. Referring to the old machines used in physio-therapy, he said. "Talk about Rube Goldberg machines, they weren't even shockproof like today...
When sex is the strongest chemical in the pill, it takes a phenomenal dose to have much effect on the shockproof Swedes-but Bergman at the moment has them reeling. His new film, Silence, has opened in Stockholm, and for the first time a sizable number of Swedish moviegoers are wondering if the dose has grown too powerful. Growling dark epithets, people are actually leaving the theater midway through the film. Others go away slowly at the end, stunned, like children retreating from a keyhole...
...nickel and cadmium electrodes. European engineers after the war developed a way to make them compact in size and to seal them permanently so that no new battery fluid has to be added during their life. Today's vastly more sophisticated nickel-cadmiums need no maintenance, are shockproof and immune to cold, and can be recharged without danger of overcharging...
...could be geared for automatic production. The watch they produced is so uncomplicated that its works are mounted between two plates instead of a network of five as on other models, and have only four screws v. 31 in other watches. Timex's simplicity gives it amazing shockproof qualities, but most jewelers agree that, with its metal bearings, Timex will not keep time as faithfully as an expensive jewel-bearing watch. Lehmkuhl retorts that a Timex should run five years without cleaning, but U.S. Time has tacitly admitted that there is some ground for criticism by recently dropping...