Word: butter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry Livings. This English import is a gorgeous farce with a stubbornly heroic antihero whom no machine, man or woman can tame. In a perfect cast, Dustin Hoffman is pluperfect. THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN first opened in 1925 and is the only play that George S. Kaufman ever wrote without a collaborator. This show-biz saga sags a bit now, and the lines are scarcely howlers, but period costumes and an able, loving cast endow it with innocent nostalgia...
...heavily Democratic, they have cherished a long-time hostility to local Democrats. They have always mistrusted the Irish and other Democratic "bosses" in the City, and have felt (sometimes correctly) that these men had an insufficient regard for civil liberties and for liberal positions on other non-bread-and-butter issues...
Stuft Shirt, Newport Beach, Calif. Local divers descend 200 ft. for abalone, which is pounded, dipped in egg, sauteed in butter...
...braking, part of the New Economics, whose expansionary aspects set off the economic boom. Heller called for a boost in taxes to sop up surplus demand, added that "some pruning of low-priority expenditures will also be necessary." Said he: "Our economy is powerful enough to afford guns and butter. But it does not follow that we can afford guns...
...chair, nibbling at flowers . . . second cousin to an octopus on a chaise longue." And he is overly fond of metaphors of cuisine: "Well-done with French-fried potatoes and salad thrown in on the side" (The Unsinkable Molly Brown); "a disillusioned slice of life with no butter" (A Taste of Honey...