Word: yarn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industry has a legitimate complaint when it comes to the price of cotton. Since cotton prices are supported by the U.S., domestic mills must pay 6? more a pound for U.S. cotton than buyers abroad pay for the same product. As a result, last year's imports of yarn leaped 14 times above 1959, increasing from 1,000,000 lbs. to 14,216,000 lbs. last year...
...values. The first character to under-go embourgeoisement is Polly. When she first falls in love with Macheath, she is the epitome of innocence; when she is about to sleep with Macheath for the first time, she runs up the hotel stairs like a kitten chasing a ball of yarn; and when she sings her song about the circumstances under which a girl should "lie down," her face is soft and pale, like a child's. But as soon as she has to take charge of Mack's gang, her clothes and manner become those of the archtypical business woman...
Adapted from a bestselling novel and Broadway play, Suzie Wong rewinds that limp old yarn about the poor starving artist and the floozy with a heart of gold, but this time the yarn has a new kink in it: miscegenation. The twain meet in Hong Kong, and pretty soon the hero (William Holden) is so crazy about the whoroine (Nancy Kwan) that he cannot tell the difference between good and bawd, white and Wong. Race prejudice and convention pothole the road to romance, but the lovers ride out the bumps...
...Jerome Weidman; music and lyrics by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick; based on Samuel Hopkins Adams' novel) is the work of the same team that turned out Fiorello! Like Fiorello!, Tenderloin is a period musical whose scene is New York and whose subject is reform. Unlike Fiorello!, this yarn of a clergyman of the '90s crusading against Manhattan's vast red-light district and colliding with its venal police force proves pretty heavy going. The high-principled minister is no such fighting gamecock as La Guardia, and Maurice Evans makes musicomedy wear a stiff collar where...
Long Shoals, which makes yarn for weavers, has suffered no loss of custom ers because of its move. Explains Buck: "Most people forget we sell a lot of stuff to Japan. A man told me I was wrong to do it. I asked him why. He said. 'We fought a war with those people.' I said we fought two wars with Germany, and I lost a brother in the last one, and you bought a boiler from them. He said, 'That's different.' So I told him, I'm look ing ahead, not backwards...