Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER. Despite occasional nonsense in the plot, Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen brighten this comedy about a girl who believes that a mother-to-be has certain responsibilities, such as finding a husband...
...Chorus, the Columbus Boychoir and a drastically altered orchestra: 17 string players were crowded off the platform to make way for a percussion section that had to man five timpani, three side drums, a bass drum, four kinds of cymbals, a tam-tam, three bongos, three temple blocks, a wood block, sandpaper blocks, rasp, whip, ratchet, triangle, maracas, claves, tambourine, chimes, glockenspiel, xylophone, vibraphone, celesta, piano and harp. Charles Munch, God bless him, conducted...
LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER. The time is now, the place is Manhattan, the boy is Steve McQueen, the girl is Natalie Wood-and when this comedy drama remembers to take itself lightly, the result is grade A Hollywood romance...
...become a practicing lawyer, and it is something of a tradition for defeated G.O.P. presidential nominees to join big Wall Street law firms. After losing to F.D.R. in 1940, Wendell Willkie entered the partnership now named Willkie Farr Gallagher Walton & Fitzgibbon. In 1955 Tom Dewey joined Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, which promptly renamed itself Dewey, B., B., P. & W. Richard Nixon has joined Mudge, Stern, Baldwin & Todd, and the firm has changed its handle to Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander...
...brilliant disciples, who in his middle years turned into an almost classic specimen of the mad scientist. The device was supposed to gather, in physical form, that life force which Freud called libido and which Reich called orgone, a coinage derived from "orgasm." The narrow box, simply constructed of wood and lined with sheet metal, offered cures for almost all the ills of civilization and of the body; it was also widely believed to act, for the person sitting inside it, as a powerful sex stimulant. Hundreds of people hopefully bought it before the U.S. Government declared the device...