Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found he needed more than inventiveness, or even his "special sauce" to run the operation. He therefore established Hamburger Central, the wall-less office near Chicago where Kroc and his burger consultants could set the party line for franchisers. In the center of one floor, a cone-shaped think tank, containing a circular water bed and a device which projects the user's alpha waves onto a screen, facilitates important decisions. (Employees may meet together within the womb-like room, unless they are of different sexes). Hamburger Central directives are communicated to the "professors" at nearby Hamburger University, which awards...
Painted Rats. Later, on another set, the director swung aloft on a crane over an indoor water tank to film an enormous caged seraglio at the edge of a Venice canal. "Motore!" he shouted, and the cameras rolled. The harem was wild with excitement as Casanova's gondola glided past. Fellini exhorted the girls chosen for the scene to climb their cage like monkeys to get a better view. "Higher, Fernanda!" he roared through a megaphone. "Climb higher and hang those lovely boobs of yours through the bars." The girl followed instructions, hung on precariously and was rewarded...
...find Yudie universal--sweet, a little shy, proud, opiniated, talkative. Although she's less obsessed with her Jewishness and much more self-reliant than most women of her background (she has been single and self-supporting for fifty years), her conversation plows with the delicate determination of a Sherman tank to the inevitable topics: food, family, marriage, and money. "Other people take pills when they get nervous, but I eat. All I need is a little piece of fruit...
Three sites are leading contenders for the VW plant: a former Westinghouse appliance factory in Columbus, Ohio, a federal tank plant in the Cleveland suburb of Brook Park and a partially completed Chrysler Corp. assembly plant at New Stanton, Pa. Whichever site Volkswagen chooses, it will soon have company. Now that it is moving into U.S. manufacturing, Japanese car makers are almost certain to follow...
...around for a while and then began to dress very slowly. I put vaseline just everywhere and then got into my racing outfit (blue shorts, yellow tank top, white golf hat). I felt dehydrated even before the race began, so I hosed down my hat and my head. My heel began to hurt as I walked towards the starting line and I was really scared I'd get a blister about two miles into the race...