Word: sunkenness
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...tour in the Orient. Among the architectural landmarks on exhibition:¶A full-scale mock-up of the kind of house Wright designed at the turn of the century, which precisely forecast the flat-roofed ranch style of U.S. architecture at midcentury. It featured, among other things, a sunken corner hearth, floor-to-ceiling windows, and storage walls. ¶ Pictures of Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, which Wright built between 1916 and 1922. Flexibly constructed on a broad, floating base of stone, the hotel was one of the few buildings to survive Tokyo's great earthquake...
...Port Royal, Jamaica, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1692 and submerged in the Caribbean by a tidal wave. Around this colorful historic event, the movie spins a modern plot about a couple of deep-sea divers (Robert Ryan and Anthony Quinn) searching for a million dollars in sunken gold...
...able to plunge to depths of over three hundred feet, where the pressure is capable of crushing a submarine. Through Costeau's engrossing account and his starting photos, the reader can share in some measure the fascination of the curious realm of silence--a world of unknown colors, of sunken ships and playful octopi...
...days later, Sriramulu came to the crisis. His eyes were sunken, his skin a ghastly pallor, and he was hiccuping continuously. His throat was so inflamed he was unable to swallow water and he vomited blood. One of the doctors at his bedside suggested that it was time to end the fast. Sriramulu had lost the power of speech, but he lifted his hand, slowly and unsteadily placed a finger on his lips in refusal. A few hours later he was dead...
...Technicolor. Like its predecessors, this entry hews to the established Road musicomedy formula: plenty of gags & girls strung on a practically non-existent plot line. This time, Bing and Bob are a couple of broken down vaudevillians who hire themselves out as deep sea divers in a quest for sunken treasure off the island of Vatu. Along the way, they encounter a dastardly South Sea prince (Murvyn Vye), a Balinese princess of Scottish ancestry (Dorothy Lamour), an amorous gorilla and a giant squid. In addition, there are brief, improbable appearances by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Bob Crosby, Humphrey Bogart...