Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure sign of a poor musical is that it consists of all work and no play. The dancers pound the floor boards like maniacal trip hammers. Sweat glazes the hero as his arms flail, his eyes pop, and he tries to kick his toes into the wings. To amplify the hollow book, microphones soup up the sound till it becomes the aural equivalent of the medieval ordeal by fire. George M!-the latest of the Broadway season's unbroken string of execrable musicals-qualifies on all counts...
Digging Out. No one knows for sure who ordered Borobudur to be built. Inscriptions on stones point to the Shailendra dynasty, which ruled Java in the 8th and 9th centuries. But there is little doubt that it required armies of laborers to lug its huge volcanic stones into place from nearby mountain slopes, and another army of artisans to carve out some three miles of bas-reliefs. What caused the massive temple to be abandoned is equally obscure, although evidence suggests it was caused by the volcanoes that form the spine of Java. For centuries, it lay buried under jungle...
Such contributions, to be sure, are no giveaway. Housing loans are insured against loss by the Federal Housing Administration, or backed by a state agency, and provide for a 6% annual return. But as slums are renewed with insurance company help, the insurers figure that slum businesses will once more become reasonable risks...
...that the variety of the new machine will help to lengthen what he calls the "espresso belt." It now runs through Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and parts of Austria and Germany. The U.S., Valente admits, has so far shown relatively little taste for coffee Italian style. But he is sure the habit is exportable on a larger scale. For as any espresso guzzler would attest, it represents one of the contributions Italy has made to the civilized amenities of the world...
...miles away, that held back Lake Conemaugh and its 20 million tons of water. Both lake and dam belonged to a club where Pittsburgh's most powerful families "roughed it." The dam was in bad shape; every time there was a hard rain, some local wag was sure to say: 'Well, this is the day the old dam is going to break." And break it finally did, unleashing a wall of water at times 70 feet high. Within an hour, there was nothing left of Johnstown except a mountain of debris and a handful of scattered houses...