Word: slab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chrome America. Oblique lines on a parking lot lead us to a lone horse-rider on blacktop; an arrow directs us past a rooster on a traffic island. Emphasizing design and pure form, Uzzle illustrates an econoline van making it a highly disciplined composition--circular wheels, white slab body that flows into each white side of the frame, and black geometric solids surround the white...
...cold as a slab...
...Live One. Even some 15 hours after the cries had turned to an ominous silence, one patient was pulled free and had only a simple request: Would someone please find his glasses and false teeth? Frank Carbonara, 68, a staff baker, had spent 58 hours under a concrete slab, listening helplessly as rescuers worked above him. "We've found a live one!" shouted a workman and Carbonara was dragged out in surprisingly good condition. "I thought I was dead," he recalled later...
...most standards, Doctors' Wives is a terrible movie. This does not prevent it, however, from being fun. In fact, it is an enormously entertaining slab of Hollywood kitsch because of, not despite, its outrageous plot turns, its hyperthyroid acting and its determination to out-sex and out-suds even the seamiest TV soap opera. It is an example of assembly-line, big-studio moviemaking at its grotesque best...
...SETTING: THE OLD JEWISH GHETTO, WARSAW, DECEMBER 1970: His broad, ruggedly handsome face etched with lines of concern, West Germany's Chancellor Willy Brandt walks slowly to the simple granite slab that memorializes the 500,000 Jews from the city's ghetto who were massacred by the Germans during World War II. For a moment he stands with bowed head, enveloped in silence except for the soft hiss of two gas-fed candelabra. Then, as if to atone for Germany's sins against its neighbors, Brandt falls to his knees. "No people," as Willy Brandt has said, "can escape from...