Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Executive Director Andrew W. Fleming of the Detroit-Wayne County Port Commission estimated that the tie-up was costing Michigan business $500,000 a day in lost revenues. "We expect some such stupidity as this about ten days a year," said President John D. Leitch of Toronto's Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd., "and we try to allow for it in our pricing system...
George Dandin, is the decorous tale of a wealthy farmer who is all but cuckolded and constantly humiliated by his upper-class minx of a wife. The only novelty provided in its performance is an acting style that is resolutely anti-psychological. Each role is lustrously burnished; none is probed. No transistorized translation is offered with these plays, and to those who lack French, the language may sound like an LP record played at 78 r.p.m...
...perhaps you were one of those who, bravely, went on with the work to be done, as usual, knowing full well the weighty perils you faced but taking them in your stride, like a man, with a stiff upper lip, as you munched buttered toast in the late morning, surrounded by friendly fellows in the warmth of the drawing room of your favorite club...
Gladys Roberts stood in the upper right-hand corner of the Sheraton-Boston's "Ballroom" (which is just a convention hall painted gold) with a tall, thin man also from Alabama. He was in charge of the money...
Manhattan's Gerhardt Liebmann, 39, recently exhibited a series of canvases that show nothing but bricks, forming endless cells or piled in heaps that stretch away to infinity. Their dreamlike, surreal character is conveyed by Liebmann's adroit deviations from strict perspective. The bricks at the upper edges of his canvases do not tilt in toward the vanishing point in the center as much as they should. Thus Liebmann creates the impression of an infinitely expanding sterile waste. The bricks also suggest the relentless monotony and cubicled isolation of big-city living, where, in Liebmann's opinion...