Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great I.C.I.-Courtaulds battle began ten weeks ago when Courtaulds directors, after secret merger negotiations, rejected as too small I.C.I.'s offer to pay the stock equivalent of $504 million for all of Courtaulds' outstanding shares. At that, I.C.I.'s icy-smooth Board Chairman Stanley Paul Chambers brusquely bypassed Courtaulds management entirely and made a public appeal to Courtaulds stockholders to trade their shares for I.C.I, stock on a five-for-four basis. Courtaulds fought back with promises of increased dividends (to 13% plus a 2.5% tax-free capital dividend), and Britain's press and Parliament...
...Chips Janger, as Jack Snow, a rake who joins the Corps for his own reasons, is smooth talking and a graceful dancer. (The rest of the acting and singing ranges from undistinguished to lousy...
...imaginative Munich playwright named Alois Senefelder discovered that he could print from stone. Searching for an inexpensive way to print his plays, he inscribed the smooth and porous surface with grease or crayon, dampened the stone with water, and then took his impression off on paper. The process, called lithography (literally, writing on stone), was capable of such beautiful reproductions that it was eagerly adopted by painters, among them Degas. Toulouse-Lautrec and Goya, to make cheap but faithful replicas of their original work. Except in artists' circles, Senefelder's stones have long since disappeared. But in print...
...smooth surface of his watercolors began to crumple into fragments, as if each scene he painted had jumped inside a prism. Everything was recognizable, but everything was also slightly out of place, tipped or distorted to give a sense of motion. Of his watercolors, Marin insisted: "Painting is like golf; the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture." But for all its spontaneity and frugality, the watercolor sometimes seemed too delicate...
Lover Come Back. Gagman Stanley Shapiro has written a situation comedy as smooth as baby food, and Director Delbert Mann manages to strain some humor out of Rock Hudson and Doris...