Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is the world's greatest picture from the world's greatest book," says the reigning flack, as he watches 3,500 body-tanned extras toiling with baskets of plastic bricks up the staircases and setbacks of the Tower of Babel on the set south of Rome. "Here," says the associate producer, "you have the first love story, the first sin, the first murder, the first boat and the first skyscraper." "All these fantastic stories," marvels the prime mover of all, Italian Producer Dino de Laurentiis, "it would be incredible if it weren't the Bible...
Efficient Cost. Special-effects men are having their finest hour. The top of the Tower of Babel was shot in Egypt, where 4,000 sun-baked Egyptians were hired to play Babylonian extras. One day only 1,500 arrived for work, so armadas of taxicabs had to be sent out through the streets of Cairo to pick up anything that moved on two feet. The bottom of Babel's tower was shot near Rome, where one genius in the makeup department ran around with cans of something called Clean Fly, which he sprayed on pale Italians to turn them...
...Carrot. Cyrus Eaton Jr., son of the U.S. industrialist who has long championed trade with the East, has opened a Cleveland-based company called Tower International to help arrange and finance deals between the U.S. and Iron Curtain countries, has already signed up as a sales agent for Hungary. The U.S. now favors such deals instead of frowning upon them, hoping to use U.S. trade as a carrot to lure the satellites closer to the West...
City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci, an authority on Cambridge architecture, has termed the seven-story Ed School's tower a monstrosity...
...School of Education has withdrawn an application for federal funds to complete its seven-story tower because it discovered it didn't need the money...