Word: washings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must be closely fitted, for instance, and its ends must not come into contact with each other. Once clamped on, it must not be removed-not even for bathing. "One must never clean them off," says Movie Director Herbert Ross. "They clean themselves off, although it is O.K. to wash the green and black off your wrist." After about two years, the makers wisely claim, the bracelets lose their power and must be replaced-a sort of magical planned obsolescence...
...professional stage experience. She manages to convey all the warmth and wit and wisdom of this aristocratic lady who is fully aware of her ward's virtues and her son's defects. One cannot begin to describe what she can do with a line like. "But I do wash his name out of my blood." In her performance there is not the slightest hint of labored delivery; all the words flow forth with seeming effortlessness, as though blank verse had always been her natural mode of discourse. Not the least impressive part of her playing comes in the long final...
...boatmen. In the opening races between the brand-new Valiant and the refurbished Intrepid, there were kinks aplenty. On the second leg of the first race, for example, Valiant was threatening to take the lead when her genoa jib ripped. In the next race, Valiant was troubled by the wash from the 125-boat spectator fleet, a faulty backstay and a spinnaker sheet that snapped with a sharp bang, causing the sail to flap wildly until the crew could wrestle it down. During a race against Heritage later in the week, Intrepid's spinnaker halyard jammed...
...writer, a man must be neither an idea machine nor a recording angel, but a human voice sounding with its own shifting intonations in the ear and heart of the reader. Describing the peculiar discrepancy between apparent message and feeling in Forster's novels, Lionel Trilling observed: " 'Wash ye, make yourselves clean,' says the plot, and the manner murmurs, 'If you can find the soap...
...Tacoma, Wash...