Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother"-and his wealthy neighbor Karp, whose "every good fortune spattered others with misfortune, as if there were just so much luck in the world and what Karp left over wasn't fit to eat." Morris Bober's troubles never come singly. Not only has a brand-new grocery opened around the corner, halving his already pitiful income, but a pair of inept hoodlums, passing up Karp's well-heeled liquor store, rob Morris instead and pistol-whip him when they find only $10 in his cash register...
Offenbach's brand of light opera is ever so much more frothy than its contemporary Anglo-Saxon counterpart, with little of the latter's pointed if slightly aging satire. It consists for the most part of many very agreeable musical pieces linked together by a singularly loose thread of plot. This plot centers less on Orpheus, represented as a violinist with a vast distaste for Eurydice, than on Jupiter's attempts to get her away from the tender mercies of her kidnaper, Pluto, so that he may have her for his own tender mercies. Jupiter's efforts are complicated...
...Using his salesman's flair, he flew his own plane over the state (Air Force Reserve Colonel Goldwater is the only qualified jet pilot in Congress) in his campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1952, upset Senate Democratic Leader Ernest McFarland, and took his own brand of conservatism to Washington...
Both teams, under the unusually hot sun, played a rather logy brand of lacrosse. The Crimson defense held off the Big Red offense well until the ill-starred fourth period, but the attack and midfield couldn't keep the ball in Cornell territory long enough to produce the much-needed runs during the second half...
...Soho hipsters who swelter and suffocate for it in the Cat's Whisker, the Côte d'Azur or The Two I's, skiffle is brand-new; to jazz critics and non-skiffling professional musicians, it is old-"a bastardized, commercialized form of the real thing," said one critic, "watered down to suit the sickly orange-juice tastes of musical illiterates...