Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bridge (Allied Artists), adapted from the novel by Manfred Gregor, is a skillful and ferocious West German film (with English subtitles) that examines one of the more horrible absurdities of World War II: the war's end draft of German schoolboys, none of them trained, many of them thrown into Hitler's crumbling defenses as "human sandbags...
...reincar nation in The Old Man and the Boy, was good company but perhaps a little too fond of saying such things as "children ain't nothin' but puppies anyhow." This second book is more of the same, with a few of Ruark's African adventures thrown in. Like the first, it is written in sloppy, shoes-off language, and the fact that the author now buys his shoes for pounds sterling in London does not prevent him from typing "ain'ts" into his copy. "Know" is translated "reckon," "a lot" becomes "a power...
...cited numerous examples of how tro's government is falling to carry successful economic reforms and is losing the support of the orginial revolutionaries. Since the industries were nationalized, he said, production has been thrown into chaos, and the standard of living is once again going down. Ray maintained that the industries should be returned to their former owners, though with tight controls to prevent monopolies...
...year. The company went into the black this year, but is spending its small profits in research. The development-called Technamation-is a method of applying transparent plastics to still pictures so that they appear to move when ordinary light, projected through a revolving disc of polarized plastic, is thrown on them. Motion can be controlled so accurately that a Technamated cutaway drawing of a jet engine shows the fuel flowing in and burning, the turbines and gears turning, and gases rushing out the rear, all in the exact timing of a real engine...
Abroad, Cheever seems to find a new freedom; the three stories about Italy have the charm and knowingness that come only to a writer who has thrown away the guidebook. But hell, at least Cheever's hell, is ever waiting just around the corner. In The Golden Age, the U.S. "situation-comedy" writer has come to Italy to try to forget that he is one. Somewhat guiltily he tries to create the impression that he is a poet-but poetic justice triumphs. Up to his rented castle comes a delegation headed by the mayor. They have just seen...