Word: thread
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cover) The husky, ruddy-faced man looked like a tough trail boss in a TV western as he mounted his palomino and set off across the rugged mountain country north of Los Angeles. He wore thread bare khaki trousers over his riding boots, a red Western shirt and a modified stetson, and packed an automatic pistol to deal with any rattlesnakes, bobcats or mountain lions he might encounter...
...green-blue light. But this is not pure laser light. It is merely ordinary mixed-up light of varying frequencies. When the current passes a critical strength (120 amp. per sq. cm.), though, the light brightens enormously, turns intense blue, and forms an undiverging beam like a tight-stretched thread...
John himself apparently felt the meeting might have been arranged by God. After the Russians left, Capovilla said, the Pope wrote in his diary: "It may be a delusion, or it may be a mysterious thread of Providence that I, as Pope, do not have the right to break...
They did not carry long rifles or travel in prairie schooners, and there was not a Daniel Boone in the lot. They were peddlers. In their 140-lb. packs, they carried free enterprise in its purest form to the frontier. Inexpensive needles, thread, piece goods, fancy notions, buttons and furbelows, even snake oil, but these were what the pioneers needed - the thousand tiny common denominators of civilization. Most ended with little more than sore feet. But some who began as peddlers created American business dynasties: Samuel Pels of Fels-Naptha soap, Department Store Founders Adam Gimbel, Benjamin Altman and Marshall...
...trouble seems to be that Kurosawa got fascinated with Dostoevsky's genius and forgot about his own. He follows with nearsighted assiduity every thread of the novelist's intricately woven tale. What's more, he too often tells the story in the author's words; he forgets to translate the words into correlatively compelling images. Nevertheless, the film skillfully counterfeits the look of Russia in the last century-it was shot in a small town in northern Japan in the dead of winter-and it brilliantly intuits the mystical spirit of Russian Christianity. The demonic nature...