Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abundance of food. Every crowded Hong Kong street is redolent of salt dried fish and the sharp smell of pickles. Vendors offer oranges, bananas and cakes; the stalls of Market Row gleam with eggplant, squash and tomatoes. Workers throng the pork shops to buy succulent halves of crisp, glazed pig. Store fronts are filled with families clustered around rice bowls and side dishes of meat and fish...
After turning out two volumes of excellent short stories (Sermons and Soda-Water, Assembly), Novelist John O'Hara let it be known that his next work was to be something really massive, surpassing even such weighty tomes as Ten North Frederick in length but embodying the crisp authority he seems lately to have lost in the piling up of documentary detail. But plainly, The Big Laugh is not it. For a mercy, it is shorter. For a pity, it is perhaps O'Hara's worst book. In its account of Hollywood in the 1920s...
...professional last January. Twice U.S. amateur champion, runner-up to Arnold Palmer in the 1960 U.S. Open, Nicklaus was almost unbeatable on the amateur circuit-and his aggressive, intimidating game seemed ideally suited to the challenge of the rich pro tour. His explosive drives averaged nearly 300 yds. His crisp irons were distinguished by the shovel-sized divots they left behind. His putting was bold and confident. But in his first pro tournament, the $45,000 Los Angeles Open, he tied for 50th place, won exactly $33.33-"a monumental beginning," he remarked wryly...
Despite the crisp rifle fire of its gags, A Thousand Clowns would not be so irrepressibly amusing if its characters were not so appealingly human. Playwright Gardner gives each of them the chance to show a core of dignity beneath the crust of daffiness. Like most plays about nonconformity. Clowns fudges its theme by leaving its hero where it should find him, with a job, a girl and responsibilities. The play is very New Yorky in tone, but its high good humor knows no geography. In a uniformly superb cast, Jason Robards Jr., previously starred in somber roles, emerges...
...other well-known item on the Rashomon's menu is tempura-- large shrimp and vegetables deep fried in a crisp coating. Many restaurants in Japan serve only tempura, which is considered a supreme delicacy. The Rashomon preparation compares quite well with what one can get at a fine tempura house in Tokyo...