Word: wringer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bobby Kennedy shot) and aesthetics (Léaud shows striking workers two truly revolutionary films: Lola Monies and The Great Dictator). It may all be dreary now, but in ten years Savoir will have a certain faint curiosity value-kind of like a 1936 Easy washer with wringer...
...write the story of his life up to the age of 20, starting with the first things he remembers. Object of the exercise: not make-do Adlerian therapy but a complete brainwash. "What I must do in the weeks that follow," warns his interrogator before applying the autobiographical wringer, "is find your moment of worst pain. . .during your childhood. . .and make you relive it. Then when you absolve yourself of all adult responsibilities, I shall pick...
...current exhibit, Spock has remodeled an old auditorium. One result is "Grandfather's Cellar," a nook that introduces children to the world their grandparents knew. It contains a washtub with hand wringer, a coffee grinder, butter churn, mechanical apple peeler and a 1927 Atwater-Kent radio-all in working order. In the Algonquin Indian exhibit, children who once learned about Indians by watching a movie and looking at artifacts now grind maize in stone mortars, chip arrowheads and munch dried berries...
Madame X. This hardy old hand-wringer about a fallen woman was somewhat behind the times when Hollywood first discovered it back in 1920. Since then, the lady has been going to hell at regular intervals-in 1929 with Ruth Chatterton, in 1937 with Gladys George. It was probably inevitable that Lana Turner and Producer Ross Hunter would want to take her out of mothballs just once more. Lana can wear clothes and look worried quite fetchingly, and Producer Hunter caters almost exclusively to an audience that not only loves to see and touch the flimsy fabric of human existence...
Capsules of gasoline have been formed into bricks that can be built into rafts for towing on water or dropped safely from airplanes. The bricks are converted back into liquid gasoline by being passed through a wringer. The Air Force is evaluating disks coated with adhesive-filled microcapsules that would break when pressed against the exterior of a spacecraft. The released adhesive would firmly cement the disk to the craft, providing an anchor for an astronaut walking or working in space. Similar encapsulated adhesives would simplify the joining of parts under water...