Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jody Adams as mehitabel made a part that could easily have worn thin (her motto, "toujours gaie," must have been repeated 50 times) constantly amusing, surprising whenever possible, and occasionally touching. John Sansone's archy, however, didn't quite click, perhaps because his part was rather stupid: a lot of wise sayings from the cockroach's perspective on human life, neither incisive nor witty...
Essentially, Author Neil Simon has taken a plot as bland as a potato, sliced it into thin bits-and made it as hard to resist as potato chips. Two spoiled young honeymooners (Robert Redford and Jane Fonda) settle into a six-flight walkup in Greenwich Village. In Ogden Nash's phrase, "a little incompatibility is the spice of life, particularly if he has income and she is pattable." And so it proves in Barefoot. The puny pad she has chosen has no heat, no bathtub, and a hole in the skylight...
...speed gunboats to hunt down Viet Cong in the Mekong Delta. It has just sold its first two commercial craft to an Alaska firm that will use them to supply offshore drilling operations. Using the hover principle on land, a French hover train, suspended above a monorail by a thin cushion of air, has already reached speeds of 190 m.p.h...
...foresee even more esoteric uses. They have already designed a hover kiln, in which pottery is suspended over a moving conveyor belt by the hot gases used to bake it. And they are attempting to perfect a hover bed for badly burned patients who would actually lie on a thin film of air, thus avoiding painful contact with the bed sheets and allowing healing on all sides...
...public education by voting down new levies and rejecting bond issues. In 1960, according to the U.S. Office of Education, only 11% of the nation's school bond issues went down to defeat; last year, 25.5% were rejected by voters, while countless others were approved by whisker-thin margins. Southern California, where public school expenditures have risen 345% since 1950, is a major center of the revolt: in the past two years, exactly half of the state's 202 school bond issues have been voted down...