Word: shower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former vice chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, is the highest Gulf officer to go so far; at least two more vice presidents also are out. The Gulf Transportation and Trading Co., which directs the firm's fleet of 76 tankers, has also been caught in a shower of pink slips. Says Gulf Chairman Jerry McAfee: "I will be surprised if we don't find more than 1,000 employees who are not essential...
...York, Southern puts its premier cru seal on the train at Washington by attaching a kitchen-dining car and installing its own crew. The train now has 13 cars, including four coaches, five sleepers and a lounge car with a master suite that boasts the only permanent rolling shower bath on American rails. In Atlanta in the morning, the overnight diner is replaced with a clean car, another crew, and a whole new cast of Pullman porters...
What about Jaws, which I found cinematically dazzling? "Junk," he says. "A stupid story--the techinique is meaningless." Its deficiencies, he says, show up clearly when compared to Hitchcok's Psycho.. "There was a very deep psychological justification for the horror in this film," he says. "In the shower sequence, Hitchcock created a metaphor for human fear. He also conveyed cinematically the theme of the inability to relate to another person...
...teen-age girl is raped in the shower of a detention home by four other female inmates wielding a "plumber's helper." A nine-year-old girl is raped with a beer bottle by four youngsters on a San Francisco beach. The first rape is pure fiction, a scene from NBC'S 1974 two-hour made-for-TV movie Born Innocent. The second is a grotesque real-life replay of the TV scene, performed by three girls, 11, 14 and 15, with a boy, 15, standing watch. According to a police investigator, one of the assailants admitted having...
Then, too, the shower of new magazines (334 in 1976, 272 last year) is not much to cheer about. Most of the fledglings are small (average circulation for last year's crop: 10,000), parsimonious (typical rate: 7? a word) and narrowly focused (Sludge, Modern Drummer, Wild World of Skateboarding...