Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...molding clay, at his brother's pottery, opened his own kiln 20 years later, and plunged into the relentless experimentation that marked him as one of the most liberal and scientific minds of the Age of Enlightenment. This is the 200th anniversary of the year when his cream-colored earthenware so impressed Queen Charlotte I that she made Wedgwood her court potter and ordered that pearly pottery be called Queen's Ware. The works were fit even for an empress, and Catherine the Great of Russia ordered a Queen's Ware dinner and dessert service...
...sick; Hairy Men is outmoded and slick. Both plays are bad, and they typify extremes of shallowness that leave the Broadway scene increasingly barren of authentic drama, honest emotion, and a conviction of reality. Broadway is stalemated between plays that cry in their beer and plays that munch cream puffs, between those that try to shock and those that aim to tease, between psychological freak shows and intellectual shell games. It is small wonder that people have been driven out of the theater when they find so little that is enduringly human...
...table salt shaker gets only 4% of the 13 million tons of salt produced in the U.S. each year. The rest goes into a vast variety of products: pickles and ice cream, lipstick and dyes, catchup and candy, cattle feed and air conditioners, plastics and newspapers. The world's biggest producer of salt-and the source of nearly a third of the salt used for all purposes in the U.S.-is Chicago's Morton Salt Co., which is known to most Americans through its motto, "When it rains, it pours...
...complete with screaming sirens. Best of all was the state banquet, held in the candlelit Bali Room of the Hotel Indonesia. There, while Javanese maidens crooned native melodies, Sukarno fed his guests three French wines and six full courses-including sto Bandung (a rice stew) and a flaming ice cream dish titled bombe glacée Afro-Asia...
...allow himself time for second thoughts requires split-second scheduling, and Anhalt has taken to dictating to himself into a tiny microphone clipped onto the lapel of his jacket and picked up by a transistorized tape recorder at his side as he tears along the superhighways in his cream-colored Lancia. The process has caused Anhalt to crack up three cars in the past two years. But the price is cheap. For Hollywood's busy scriptwriter, just another tax deduction...