Word: cream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every main intersection, the cops were knee-high in mounds of cheese, nuts, cake, fruit, beer, wine, liquors, and an occasional mug of shaving cream. One Roman police sergeant estimated that before Befana was done, each member of the 130-man traffic police force took home an average of four bottles of wine plus a pound of pasta...
Finally Mom decides to give up Fletcher for Michael, and the third act finds mother and son doing nicely thank you at a rather too cheory, peaches-and-cream colored flat in another part of London. When Sir John returns, with a divorce promised, and still in love, Mom at first refuses to marry him, but over a couple of shots of gin with Michael, Fletcher gives the boy ideas for his own love life. Somehow the boy matures and understands, and though the audience is never sure quite how it happened, True Love conquers...
...didn't improve his disposition much. He was still brusque with waiters and photographers. He was fussy about food. When he ordered scrambled eggs, he said: "Got any cream out there? Well, mix the eggs with cream before you cook them. Not milk-cream...
Toland's subtle transition shots make the jumps seem as smooth as cold cream. Sample: in the '90s, Niven's older sister (Jayne Meadows) stands in the hallway of their house holding a large brass key. He has just sworn never to touch it again (or enter the house) as long as she lives. The camera narrows its focus to the key; the key turns in a lock-in the hand of Niven's grandniece (Evelyn Keyes) half a century later...
...cream of the novels from the Continent was unquestionably Albert Camus' The Plague, a study of human behavior in the face of death,-Readers might justly disdain the gabby slickness of The Chips Are Down, Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist novel; but in Camus (often regarded as one of existentialism's fellow travelers, though he denies it), they could recognize the true novelist's capacity for translating philosophy and faith into the vigorous language of human conduct...