Word: delicatessens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...families with incomes not nicked by the recession were gripped by a mood of tight-fisted caution. Liquor dealers reported a drastic switch from costlier to cheaper brands. Chain-store sales were brisker than in booming early-1957 because many housewives were forgoing the comparative serenity of the corner delicatessen or grocery store and shopping in supermarkets to save pennies to put into savings accounts. In Chicago a young woman borrowed $500 from a downtown bank at 4½% interest, offering as collateral her $650 savings account drawing 2% interest. She just didn't want to dip into...
...diverse targets-among them Schopenhauer, Orval Faubus and the Organization Man ("I am a team man. . . I get my steam, man, from that doll Normie Vincent Peale"). Among Winter's best: a "film clip" from a Brief Encounter-styled British movie entitled The Heart Is a Desperate Delicatessen; a monologue in which Producer "Boris Ishtar" rages at his star, "Rock Quarry," for failing to hit the big scandal magazines with the "slight perversions" suburbia currently demands ("I am spitting my Miltown...
...last year the total was $10,767,000 (not including the $20 million building program at Redstone itself). Memorial Parkway, a new four-lane stretch of U.S. 231, is lined with housing developments, more than a dozen modern motels, a $3,000,000 shopping plaza (with a delicatessen featuring Wiener schnitzel), and two new schools. A pride of the community is the new 55-piece Huntsville Civic Orchestra-with Werner Kuers, one of Von Braun's old German rocket hands, as concertmaster...
...Dreadful, or lamented mating in the movies when the lovers "come together finally for a kiss, the mouths are open, on the big screen it's half a block long, you could see the tongues, like from a cow, this is not love any more, this is delicatessen!" In the end, of course, both Slezak and Neal went back to their old playmates, having come to know that "the main thing is a little understanding and a little humor." The play had a little of both, thanks to attractive performances and to authentic Seventh Avenue argot by Elick...
Combat Fatigue. In North Philadelphia, after Hagop Kooyoomijian, 53, for the 14th time in his life, chased an armed hold-up man out of his delicatessen, he explained: "I'm not afraid of their guns; I have a heart condition and may die anyway...