Word: whirlpools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...river's edge. When the girl stumbles and falls into a whirl pool, all of Jean Berthier's character flaws jump into action at once. He is afraid of waking up his fiancee; she might become frightened. He is afraid to jump into the river; the whirlpool might be dangerous...
...Government, which underwrites 60% of the national research effort, also tends to emphasize practical rather than theoretical value. At least 93% of Government research money placed with industry goes for specific projects; $4 of every $5 in Government research grants to universities also specify applied research. Says Whirlpool-Seeger President Elisha Gray II: "The paucity of support for basic research could be our Achilles' heel...
Hollywood snickered. "Act?" sneered one of Marilyn's directors. "That blonde can't act her way out of a Whirlpool bra." Cocktail parties were convulsed with the news that Marilyn was holed up in Manhattan with the entire Modern Library, and had sworn she would not unlock the door until she was cultured. The rumors began to get wilder. Marilyn had been admitted to the Actors Studio, and was studying the deep-dish Stanislavsky Method. She wanted to play Grushenka in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov...
...offices and trumpeted that it was launching a multimillion-dollar sales program. Last week Harvester revealed that it had been treading on thin ice all along: it quit the freezer business. The company sold its 962,000-sq. ft. Evansville, Ind. refrigerator plant for $19 million to fast-growing Whirlpool-Seeger Corp. (which is backed by RCA and Sears, Roebuck), announced that henceforth it would stick to its $1 billion-a-year farm-equipment business...
Above the Water. To depict the dramatic sinking of the Dorchester Nivola designed a huge 22-ft.-by-24-ft. hull of white, reinforced concrete, balanced it over a broad fountain basin which flows inward with a whirlpool motion to a small central oval. For the four 6-ft.-tall sandcast plaques, set just above the water to memorialize the four chaplains, Nivola also went back to an early inspiration, the semi-abstract holiday bread loaves made by Sardinian women. For his motifs Nivola picked four common aspirations: the clasped hands of prayer, conflict of good and evil, family unity...