Word: custard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fear of Censorship. Certain treatments of homosexuality, of course, are as old to movies as the custard pie. Effeminacy always brought out the vitriolic best in comedians, particularly in pre-code days. Both W. C. Fields and Chaplin made the dandified sissy a prime object of putdowns and pratfalls. But a serious, forthright approach to sexual inversion was slow to appear. When Hollywood first filmed Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour in 1929, fear of censorship forced Director William Wyler to substitute an innocent boy-meets-girl plot for the original lesbian relationship. When Billy Wilder made...
...protested, staggering to his feet and menacing poor Mia. Neither did Mitchum, who plastered a plate of salad on the Dutchman's face. In return, the gentleman heaved a salad at Mia. Before the waiters broke up the festivities, the air was full of cucumbers and tomato slices. Custard pie, anyone...
This shocks even her black-sheep Uncle Bob (Trevor Howard), especially after Lover Amaz (Shashi Kapoor) fits Hayley out with contact lenses and a hairdo piled up like frozen custard. But she has seen enough movies to know that Amaz Can Never Make Her Happy. So it's back to England and some bank clerk of a husband-with a fling in Hong Kong first on the proceeds from selling Auntie's jewelry...
Yellow matter (10a) custard dripping from a dead...
...eats the oysters he has tricked into following him. 10) the sound of Finnegan falling--the breaking of the oosphere. 10a) "Man of" is a far more likely, and grammatical, interpretation of what the Beatles sing than "matter". 11) from an old English schoolboy's rhyme: "Alligator, crocodile, custard pie/All mixed together with a dead dog's eye/Spread it on a sandwich nice and thick/ And swallow it down with a cup of cold sick" 11a) If this isn't Capitol's inaccurate estimation of "Grab a lock of", then the Beatles have created a nonsense in the spirit...