Word: showering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shower of Stars: After getting his second Emmy of the evening at the award ceremonies last week (see above), Jack Benny asked a prophetically rhetorical question: "Wouldn't it be funny if my next show was lousy?" Shower succeeded in reducing its stars (Janis Paige, John Raitt, Betty Grable) to micrometeor magnitude, often seemed an accidental parody of an early '30s movie musical, lacking only the traditional aerial views of chorus girls sprawling in living floral patterns. Jokes and Chrysler commercials sometimes had interchangeable parts. Cooed Barbara Nichols, playing a scrub girl in a carwash emporium...
When eight high school and prep school teachers who had worked on the course took it back to their classrooms for testing, the reaction was prompt and positive. Item: at Exeter, Physics Teacher Judson Cross hustled into the shower room one night to break up what sounded like a water fight, found the showers full on and his boys shouting with glee as they "stopped" drops in flight by peering through simple stroboscopes made in the course...
...More of Less." Famed for his insistence on precision in both design and execution, Mies insisted that the 4-ft. 7½-in. module for the building be rigorously carried throughout, allowed only a one-sixteenth-inch leeway even in the interior offices, hallways and shower rooms. Draftsmen on the job rapidly discovered that Mies's doctrine of "less is more" applies to work as well as design, spent weeks redesigning door handles, mail chutes and even fire alarms to put them in harmony with the building. To heighten the impact of Mies's austere geometry, the building...
...glib years on radio, he is now also talking on TV. "Don't bother to look at me," he assures fans on his 45-minute daily early-morning show. "I'll tell you if something is on-camera that you must see. Go ahead, take a shower, change the baby's diaper...
...secretary made these other main points in handling a shower of questions: 1. Red China should be barred from any summit meeting because it is not an. "indispensable or proper" authority to discuss world problems. The United States has no reason to the Peiping regime but would not hesitate to meet with its representatives if it would serve peace...