Search Details

Word: showers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...running out of them, and so looks forward to the rigors of daily criticism. Her taste in movies is eclective: she professes to like westerns along with Fellini. There is one obstacle. Like her predecessor, she is repelled by excessive violence, and walked out during the knifing in the shower scene in Hitchcock's Psycho. "I have a problem about horror movies," she says, "that I suppose I will have to get over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: MAGAZINES | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

Returning to Michigan aboard his chartered plane-appropriately, a de Havilland Dove-the Governor went straight to the William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak to pick up his wife Lenore, who had suffered a broken arm and dislocated shoulder two days earlier when she slipped in the shower at the Romneys' Bloomfield Hills home. For reasons that go beyond personal affection, Romney's aides are hoping she mends swiftly. Lenore is a considerable asset on the stump, provides a warmly feminine counterpoint to her husband's granite-jawed, combative style, and helps calm him when the going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Into the Silks | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...laser beam (in the case of the red lines) and a mercury-vapor lamp (for the white). "Dark" was dreamed up by Robert Whitman, 32, an artist whose reputation in Manhattan art circles rests on his theater happenings and "cinema sculptures," including a movie of a nude taking a shower. Whitman is fascinated by the fourth dimension, and, to work through his newest analysis of it, he called on the services of two Bell Telephone Laboratories engineers, Eric Rawson and Larry Heilos. They showed him how laser beams, controlled by motorized projectors, could produce the desired effect of hard-edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kinetics: Drawing in the Dark | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...most dramatic portion of the flechette's travels is yet to come. As it emerges from its target in a shower of hot gases and molten steel, the hot uranium again comes in contact with air. Without its ablative coating to protect it, it oxidizes explosively, producing overpressures that on a large scale could damage a tank or bunker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weapons: Magic Bullet | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

Villages large enough to support a permanent school can get one fast. From six large depots in Mexico City, they can order prefabricated steel frames, desks, blackboards, a basic 50-book library, toilet and shower, and quarters for a teacher. The village pays a third of the cost (about $400), supplies such wall material as concrete, adobe or brick, and provides the labor to assemble the structure, which can be put together in a few days. "Knowing that they have contributed," explains Construction Engineer Enrique Estrada, "gives villagers a sense of pride and ownership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schools Abroad: Why Juan Can Read | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

Previous | 336 | 337 | 338 | 339 | 340 | 341 | 342 | 343 | 344 | 345 | 346 | 347 | 348 | 349 | 350 | 351 | 352 | 353 | 354 | 355 | 356 | Next