Word: wrapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing would feel uncomfortable on a performer." She is also famed for her "glue," her ability to link scenes smoothly, as when the distorted image of a gangster in a funhouse mirror gives way in an eyeblink to a beautiful girl looking in a mirror at a new fur wrap. She rules more by sex appeal than by fiat. "Can we try it this way, darling," she will murmur, "or would you hate me for that, sweetheart?" Or, as she adjusts the plastic welder's mask designed to protect her from flying chips and plaster: "Darling, could you hold...
...confined to Boston Common. During a visit to New York last week, he found the new Americana Hotel "more awful than anyone can imagine," and densely inhabited by ''all the brassy blondes whom you seem to remember from Miami, all the sharp-featured characters in their wrap-around polo coats." Turning away disdainfully, he trained his eye on the city's newspaper strike, found an unexplored facet: the special travail of Manhattan's paper-trained dogs. "It strikes you as so strange." Frazier wrote, "to hear one woman complain, 'I just don't know...
Sulphur & Molasses. Ways and Means Chairman Mills has an additional reason for misgivings about Kennedy's plans. He wants to wrap tax reduction and tax reform in a single package, fearing that if Congress just cuts the rates, the opportunity for reform will be lost...
Perhaps it is the distinctive nature of the gift shop which enables the sales girl to say with a straight face: "Yensir, one gorilla. Shall I gift-wrap...
...tears of innocent children (and not a few adults) deprived of daily comics...the grim plight of subway riders forced to stare at each other on the long ride to work...the piercing cry of the hapless fishmonger with no newspaper in which to wrap his wares...such sufferings cannot go unrelieved at this Christmas season...