Word: trimmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story is so naively contrived that the audience at times must swallow it out of simple generosity. Mifune-appearing 15 years trimmer and every muscular inch a star-plays an idealistic rookie detective whose confidence is shaken when a pickpocket steals his .38 Colt on a crowded bus. He plunges into the Tokyo underworld to find it; and in a long sequence without a word of dialogue interrupting the flow of images, Kurosawa pulls the viewer right in after him. Mifune joins forces with a wise old sleuth (Takashi Shimura), and the two men track a killer through a series...
...experimental sports car, called the Tarpon. It is the forerunner of a fastback four-seater that the com pany plans to introduce during the '65 model year. Designed more for comfort than for high performance, the new U.S. sports cars have heavier, larger bodies than their trimmer European counterparts...
...Jackets, cut a good inch and a half shorter than the average, have square shoulders and single buttons. There is no handkerchief pocket-Sy hates bulges. Trousers have frontier pockets (like dungarees), no hip pockets, no cuffs, no belt (or a half belt in cloth), and are three inches trimmer than a standard size at the knee. Sy recommends leather boots to go with all this. The overall impression is a kind of subdued ostentation, part banker, part bookie, part ivy, part jivy. Everything is lined with paisley silk. Even the lint is lined...
...executive admits that "the rechargeable battery industry is about at the stage where color TV was five years ago." The expensive raw materials and relatively low-volume production at present keep prices of the batteries well above what most consumers like to pay (Black & Decker's battery hedge trimmer costs $99 v. $39 for a cord model). But as demand grows, the industry looks for mass production methods to come into use and to bring drastic price reductions...
...sent children monorail riding on ''the Pink Pig Flyer,'' also boasted the city's largest (65 ft.) Christmas tree, a northern white pine imported from South Carolina. The Atlanta Constitution reported that "edible ornaments are being revived''; there was hardly a tree trimmer around without a couple of gross of chocolate snowmen tucked away in reserve in hopes of having one or two unchewed examples left by Christmas...