Word: spaghettied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...against a brick building for a shot involving a small boy who nearly falls off a roof. At the edge of a vast lawn, a fake rock wall and Styrofoam cannon mark the location of the sex scene. The trucks that moved the cameras, props and coils of electrical spaghetti have been converted into Teamster poker parlors. For the hot, thirsty crew that has assembled jv this summer on the bosky Georgian campus of the Millbrook School near Poughkeepsie, N.Y., it is another wrap in the filming of The World According to Garp. But for John Irving, au thor...
...first day on the job, I shelled out 89 cents for a Super-Saver polyester tie. Damned if I was going to stain a real tie with discount spaghetti sauce. Next, I had to get trained. The manager assigned me to John, high-school dropout and expert on stock-boying. John, however, was reluctant to share his expertise, and I was forced to teach myself tricks such as keeping my thumb out of the way of the razor blade carton opener and making sure that all the cans of toilet bowl disinfectant had their labels facing the customers...
Three days before his oral argument, Cucinotta is in the kitchen of his suburban home, stirring spaghetti sauce and expounding on the U.S.'s adversary system of justice. "People like me are the champions of liberty," he says. "Think if I lose. Does it mean that the Government can willy-nilly threaten harsher sanctions if a defendant doesn't drop the attorney of her choice? Think of the Spanish Inquisition! Or the Tower of London! Not everybody in there was guilty. Or the Willingboro Ten!" His wife Santa gently corrects him: "It's the Wilmington...
Runners-up for Miss Tacky, 1980: Elizabeth Taylor ("Not one movie star has worse taste"); Suzanne Somers (a fashion plate of "recycled spaghetti") and Bo Derek ("a butterfly wearing her cocoon...
...noisy inferno at Westinghouse's lamp factory in Bloomfield, N.J., a Unimate 2015G robot performs a process called "swaging." This is somewhat like making spaghetti, but it is done with 21-in. rods of yellow tungsten, destined to become light-bulb filaments. The robot lifts them off a conveyor belt and sticks them into a blazing furnace (3,200° F), then into a swaging machine that stretches the rods until they have grown to 37 in. in length and shrunk to exactly .467 in. in diameter. Three workers, each of whom cost the company $20,000 per year...