Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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butter head, chili bowl, ditty bob. Terms of contempt, used to refer to Negroes whose behavior embarrasses other Negroes...
...Bridge were largely self-taught and at first they tended to paint rather alike. They all did carmine-red houses, crimson trees, ultramarine roads, faces that were part chrome yellow and part cobalt blue. They had no liking for the impressionists, who saw a pear in a bowl as having many different shades of green. "For us," says Heckel, "it was a green pear-bang-in a red bowl." They also scorned impressionist garden paintings that "could just as well have been shifted a few yards to the right or left in the choice of the scene to be shown...
...primitive man, has dozens of national variants from tortillas to crepes, but it took the American genius for mass production and specialization to make the low-cost, high-profit pancake a paying proposition. The pancake men work as often with slide rules and time charts as they do with bowl and griddle, know their customers' tastes and habits with awe some accuracy. One chain has so automated pancake production that cooks set meters which measure out the precise amount of batter required for cakes of different diameters. The head cook periodically whips out a ruler, checks that the cakes...
Professor is a manic switcheroo on the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde theme. Kelp, with his chipmunk teeth, soup-bowl haircut, horn-rimmed half glasses and Neanderthal lope, is fed up with himself. One night in his laboratory he stirs up and quaffs a concoction that will make him strong, handsome and irresistible to women-for what woman could resist a sun-lamp tan, a Shinola coiffure, a high-roll shirt collar, and an electric blue suit with black lapels? Thus decked out, God's gift to coeds invades the Purple Pit (a Paramount updating of the old campus...
...barnstormed the great plains in a primitive two-seater plane to photograph the Dust Bowl. She hitchhiked by rowboat to get pictures of the Louisville flood. As the only foreign press photographer in Russia when Hitler attacked, she dodged wardens and bombers to shoot the nightly air raids on Moscow. Her ship was torpedoed out from under her in the invasion of Africa; she was among the first correspondents to photograph Buchenwald; she was the last to interview Gandhi, hours before his assassination. Thus Margaret Bourke-White followed the classic dictum of her trade, to be "in the right place...