Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Summer was here. In its outward manifestations it was about average. There had been heat-nothing sensational-but enough to make an undertaker sweat and a dog hunt shade. Big city subways were beginning to smell, tenement fire escapes were draped with bedding, park benches were solid with sitters. Bugs were back and committing suicide on a million windshields. Theaters boasted: "Cool Inside." The ice was about gone from high western lakes. Crab grass was invading lawns, screen doors already needed repairs, school was out and at least 53,487 small fry had been stung by bees or splotched...
...force. Against the peaceful backdrop of palm frond and pandanus, on this most "backward" of islands, the most progressive of centuries would write in one blinding stroke of disintegration the inner meaning of technological civilization: all matter is speed and flame. Well might the stone giants embedded in the solid earth of Easter Island feel, in the far ripple of fission brought them by the waves, a tremor of finality...
Most class-reunion outfits were boisterous refinements of the Princeton seniors' "beer suits" (painters' white overalls and white jackets). The solid citizens of the Class of 1922 crashed through with the loudest and fanciest variation: black-&-orange plaid overalls, and blue-grey jackets with matching plaid pockets...
...played guitar, caught the jazz fever and bought three riverboat banjos so he could switch from one to another when his ferocious strumming broke the strings. Drummer Bill Dart has fingers like crowbars, drums almost exclusively on wood blocks and a washboard. Pianist Wally Rose, a man with a solid beat, also plays Bach and Chopin...
Specter of the Rose (Republic) is what happened when Republic handed Writer-Director-Producer Ben Hecht the price of a horse opera ($200,000) and left him strictly alone to create-if he could-a work of art. The picture rates solid A for effort, something between A and low D for quality. Parts of it will delight a limited audience...