Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discretionary income. One-third of U.S. married women hold jobs, and many wage earners moonlight in order to build on an extra room or buy a new freezer. The consumer can make the economy rise by trading up from hamburger to steak, buying an air conditioner to replace the window fan or taking that long-planned trip to Europe. By the same token, he has the power to slow or reverse the economic advance by deciding to postpone his purchases. "The consumer is the key to our economy," says Macy's Jack Straus. "When the country has a recession...
...Heineman really doesn't give a damn whether the whole town of Fort Knox is gassed to death, or whether Goldfinger does finally break the bank, then let him wrap himself in cellophane beside a sunny window, insert a thermometer in his mouth, and play with his Rhodes Scholarship, 007 is no parody of more movies, but of the very stuff that dreams are made of. And as long as Bond is flinging electric lights into bathtubs containing villains about to plug him with his own Smith & Wesson, as long as he's kneeing Chigro henchmen in the groin...
...goddess hovering over the city" of Los Angeles. He posed her with a model of the new Los Angeles Music Center, used a rich blue cloth to hang in for the city's sky, and added his impressionistic view of Los Angeles at night from the window of his hotel room. When the portrait was nearly complete, Mr. Chandler took a look and found it a good likeness of Mrs. Chandler. Then, possibly thinking also of his own portrait, he told her in reassuring tones: "Henry, you know, never flatters." Returning the compliment, Painter Koerner, who generally finds...
Next come the marchers, swinging along with mob gaiety and waving their xenophobic standards at the white faces in the embassy window. Then up roars the jeerleader-often a government in formation ministry man in a sound truck. The next arrival is apt to be a riot truck, probably provided-though for different purposes-by U.S. AID funds, its sides marked with the agency's symbol of clasped hands. Out come the carefully collected stores of cobble stones, brick halves and rocks. And then the fun begins: curses and shattered glass, bonfires and blazing auto mobiles, looted snack bars...
...Director Jacques Demy transforms it into a film of unique and .haunting beauty. Suspended in silvery rain above a cobblestone street, the camera peers down at a crimson umbrella that is soon jostled by others into a colorful mosaic. Again, the tumbling of carnival masqueraders past a plate-glass window adds ineffable poignancy to Actress Deneuve's tranquil blonde perfection as she waits for Guy. And in her wedding scene, wearing a maternity bridal gown, she is the exquisite embodiment of every girl who ever traded her first careless rapture for a bit of tangible security...