Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cubans, mostly former political prisoners, began clamoring for U.S. visas outside the offices of the U.S. Interest Section, which represents the U.S. on the island in the absence of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Suddenly several buses pulled up, and scores of their country men jumped out. Swinging tire irons, pipes and chains, they into the throng as police stood by and watched. After 20 minutes, more police arrived and the fighting stopped, but not before a dozen were injured and some 400 of the visa seekers had fled into the U.S. offices...
...mist settled into rain, and The Garage, a bit to the right--neck bend necessary--conjured smells of rubber tire. Perne in a gyre. Do we dare remember the burden of the past? Rain resolved into puddles, 7:30 a.m., an hour and a half more to the burden bestowed by Weimar--or was it Bismarck?--no, his eyes waxed yellow, his urine bilious. Hitler would have to wait...
...enters a milieu, that of working-class life, that the movies often bypass. Thomas Hacklin lives in Buffalo and works for a tire factory. His car is dilapidated, and the house his wife and kids inhabit (he is divorced) is, at best, humble. Life for him is a few beers with the boys after work, a Saturday-night dance at the union hall and a little amateur baseball on Sunday afternoon. As director, Caan reveals the character with a sympathy that never patronizes. As an actor, he shows him as a good-natured fellow sustained by simple loyalties. Hacklin...
DIED. Willard D. Voit, 69, Los Angeles rubber magnate who turned a struggling company into one of the world's leading manufacturers of inflatable balls; of lung cancer; in Newport Beach, Calif. Though it was Voit's father William who expanded his tire-retread operation into ball manufacturing in the 1920s, it was Willard, company president from 1946 to 1960, who promoted the rubber revolution in athletics. His argument that rubber balls cost less, last longer, retain their shape better and are more water-repellent than their leather counterparts won over U.S. football, soccer and basketball coaches...
These remarks, however, are delivered while he is working 15 hours a day on Fu Manchu, having just taken over the direction of the film. They are delivered in front of a wife who does not tire of saying that her husband "is only happy when he is working. To give up work would be fatal to Peter's mental state. A beach for him is an ideal which when realized is never as good as the anticipation...