Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While the Beatles were still in the heavy rock kick, Simon & Garfunkel were producing great intellect. When the Beatles can produce something like A Poem on The Underground Wall, or Sounds of Silence, they will be truly great...
...Being single is like banging your head against a wall: it feels so good when you stop. At 27, I married a widower with four children; at 40, I am the engrossed mother of ten. Conclusion: careers are fulfilling, marriage is absorbing...
...blocks way from the Boston City Club, on the fifth floor of an office building in the quiet, elegant Back Bay, quiet young women moved smartly about Kevin White's headquarters, where smiling workers crayoned the ward-by-ward returns on a wall-sized chart. Unlike Mrs. Hicks' picnic-like celebration, where there was plenty of liquor and no charts, White's headquarters were marked by an exuberant but businesslike atmosphere. Returns from each precinct were carefully tabulated; charts showing the relative strength of each candidate in each important city district were being set-up and studied. There...
Some managers, obviously those with titles on the door, rate wall-to-wall carpeting, acoustic ceilings with inlaid lighting, and handsome darkwood desks and chairs. There's nothing wrong with a little rank and privilege, and, of course, a job well done entitles the doer to some sort of reward. But as one former worker for HSA said, "Sometimes ` the whole thing smacked of a bunch of little kids playing big business...
...stolen share of the stolen loot. His techniques are sometimes interesting-as when he uses a white 1967 Chrysler convertible to subdue a bad-guy passenger by crashing, crunching and slamming the car into a junkyard heap. His invasion of the syndicate's impregnable penthouse (carpeted in wall-to-wall red fox fur) begins with a steamy sex wrestle and ends in a superbly vertiginous shot of a naked mobster arcing 20-odd stories into a crowded street...