Word: stooled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wild in the Country (20th Century-Fox) casts Elvis Presley, the well-to-do Memphis meadowlark, as a farm boy who fears he bears the mark of Cain because he clonked his brother with a milking stool. The parole board takes the broad view, however, and soon Elvis is out haylofting with two chicks, brown-haired Millie Perkins, a long way from The Diary of Anne Frank, and Tuesday Weld, a 17-year-old who is going to look a great deal like Saturday night before she is 20. Afternoons he spends with Hope Lange, a widowed psychologist...
...decretals are the devil's excretals," cries John Osborne's monk in a burst of rhyme. Throughout the evening, it seems, scarcely two minutes are permitted to go by in which Luther does not resort to some self-dramatizing scatological simile: "I'm like a ripe stool in the world's straining anus, and at any moment we're about to let each other...
Gibbings' new pieces have their models' clean, simple lines and gracefully swooping curves, which can be fitted easily into the modern split-level, while at the same time suggesting the ageless charm of antiquity. In the Gibbings collection is a leather-topped folding stool with four sturdy horse legs, which was copied from a mid-6th century earthen plaque in the West Berlin State Museum. Other straight-legged stools are borrowed from a frieze in the Parthenon. Copied line for line and curve for curve from the stele of Hegesco, built in 400 B.C., is a large chair...
With its stiltlike legs and bulging dome, the ungainly contraption looked like a basketball balanced on a bar stool. But the strange rocket that the Navy unveiled last week at its China Lake (Calif.) Ordnance Test Station comes closest yet to solving one of the most difficult problems of space travel: how to make a soft landing on the moon or some even more distant airless planet...
...make such soft landings on their own. Later models will need stabilizing devices to take the place of guide cables. They will also need sensitive instruments to gauge the diminishing distance to the ground. But when such tricky gadgets have been developed, a descendant of the weird bar-stool-and-basketball may some day descend gently on the rugged surface of the moon...