Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to making a good cup of coffee) once had an English teacher who hated dogs very much, and who used to talk about how awful they were for several minutes of every class, and who used to shoot at dogs when they came onto his property in Cohasset, Massachusetts, where I lived as a youngster. And futhermore, since I was born, we've had a total of thirteen dogs in our family each one of which has, in turn, been run over by a car, and only a few of which I can remember the names of, including...
...white film the Apollo astronauts literally photographed everything within sight: Gumdrop, Spider, the third-stage S-4B rocket, themselves, and the curved expanse of earth below. During the somewhat more relaxed final half of their mission, they also tried out a variety of filters and specialized film to shoot infrared, green-light and other pictures that should teach scientists more about the earth and its resources...
...Heironymus bummer began shooting on the isle of Malta. But "the editor of the Times of Malta started a campaign about the decadent film unit," he says. "Suddenly there were cops everywhere. They were pressuring me not to shoot the scene where I make love to Mercy in the grass. Eventually we did shoot it ... we had to go in the grass very deep." If he had trouble with the fuzz, it was even worse with some of the cast. "Berle is one of the great monsters of our time," he says. "You believe he's the Devil because...
Nobody can beat the exhilaration of a pessimist who thinks the end-time has come. Writing slightly bad-tasting novels (Myra Breckinridge) and bland-tasting plays (Visit to a Small Planet) is just the start for Vidal. He keeps busy as an opinion maker, staging shoot-outs with William Buckley on TV and churning out some of the liveliest doomsday journalism ever, mostly in today's essay form, the book review...
Since 1960 rent in Cambridge have doubled. Eight year ago $80 was the median rent for a three-room apartment. Today it is $150. As the shortage grows worse and costs continue to shoot up, lower income residents are forced to leave the city. The effects of the shortage are especially severe for elderly people who live of fixed incomes...