Word: woven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...News correspondent in Miami, "and it gives every sign of being one of the most lurid and bloodstained among latter-day criminal cases. Whichever way the murder trial goes, it is all mixed up with big money and wheeler-dealerism." Added the Houston Chronicle's man in Miami: "Woven through the fabric of the case are the threads of love, hate, greed, savage passion, intrigue, incest and perversion...
Ohayo is Japanese for "good morning." With that greeting, day begins for the teeming inhabitants of a crowded modern housing development near Tokyo. And the lives of nearly all of them are woven into the texture of this delicate, homespun comedy by the late Yasujiro Ozu. Virtually unknown in the West, Ozu died in 1963 as Japan's most honored film maker, a man whose gentle art was eclipsed outside his homeland by the blazing, exportable genius of Kurosawa...
...planted deep in Iowa soil, had it always been governed by common sense. Yet when the former Vice President died in a Danbury, Conn., hospital last week at 77, consumed by a rare, wasting neuromuscular ailment known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, his ideas and ideals had long since been woven into American life, his grand illusions all but forgotten. In the 17 years since he campaigned for the presidency as a candidate and captive of the Communist-dominated Progressive Party, Wallace had retreated into obscurity so all-enfolding that few Americans were aware that one of the most controversial figures...
Think of The Tempest not as a statement but as a meditation and you don't ask for a definitive production. There are too many themes woven together in the plot and in the verse for a single rendition of the play to display them all. Some are obscure, at least to an audience not familiar with the traditions of the revenge tragedy and the pastoral romance--both of which The Tempest in some degree comprehends...
...biggest boom is in nylon, which is woven into tire cord and tennis nets, safety belts, inflatable domes and underwear. Italy's Snia Viscosa is spending $72 million on nylon expansion, has formed a traveling choir to promote its nylon-based Lilion fiber. Britain's Imperial Chemical and Courtaulds both had to ration nylon shipments to weavers last year, are spending more than $150 million to double their productive capacity. Germany's Glanzstoff and Farbenfabriken Bayer are also doubling their nylon output...