Word: talled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With heavy fertilization, the dwarf wheat, which stands 18 inches high, half as tall as ordinary wheat, can bear more grain without toppling over...
PROMISES, PROMISES is a slick, amiable and derivative musical based on the film The Apartment. Jerry Orbach is splendid as the tall, gangling antihero, but the rhythms of Burt Bacharach's score sound something like sporadic rifle fire...
...Left-handers are not the only ones who must negotiate a world designed for others. Take, for example, tall people-like myself-who find door lintels conveniently at forehead level, hotel beds several inches too short, and theater seats with just enough leg room to push one's knees into one's face. But that's not the worst of it: we also find that almost all the pretty women are too short...
...tall towers can be seen from miles away-glum, graceless structures, most of them still unfinished. They mark Co-Op City, a vast middle-income housing project for about 60,000 people, which is now rising over the desolate flats of northern New York City. Ringed by highways and anchored in mud, this group of apartment houses stands as both a prediction of huge vertical subdivisions yet to come and a warning of failures that can be avoided...
...other performers are all wonderful, too, each in their own way. Pete Atkin plays a mean piano when he is not cavorting with the others. And Jonathan James-Moore, tall and wild-eyed, makes a nice alternative to Dai Davies, shorter and dull-eyed...