Word: dished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Veteran Cinemactor Clark Gable, victim of many a make-up man and wardrobe mistress, found that he could also dish it out. At a Manhattan party, his impromptu costume designing bested the efforts of Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. and Violinist Nathan Milstein. Artistically flinging yard goods around bathing-suited models, Gable achieved outstanding success by making Model Charlotte Hanker appear to be having just as much...
...most highbrow music-which often they don't understand anyhow. A Strauss waltz is as good a thing of its kind as a Beethoven symphony. It's nice to eat a good hunk of beef, but you want a light dessert, too." Fiedler's aim: to dish up the dessert as well as possible-"I'm very fussy about that...
...hearty appetites, Don Luis eats everything. If he has a favorite dish, it is the second helping. Fabulous tales are told of his capacity for alcohol (an old Washington acquaintance says he once saw Muñoz down 26 Scotch & sodas in an evening). But as Governor he has tapered off. Nowadays he takes only two or three straight shots of rum or brandy as an appetizer, and dilutes his wine with water. Muñoz, a busy chain-smoker (Lucky Strikes), has lately surprised his friends by breaking the endless succession of cigarettes with an occasional cigar...
...time we got down to specifics," complained one executive. "Instead of playing around with the birds, bees and flowers, why doesn't the NAB dish out the facts of life?" NAB's Richard Doherty replied with some hard TV facts: an average TV station costs nearly as much each year to run ($221,000) as it does to build and equip (up to $350,000). This kind of money was far beyond the reach of the average radio station owner. *At week's end, as the delegates journeyed homeward, there was no sure cure in sight...
...fast riding and hard shooting, El Paso leaves a mildly unpleasant aftertaste. Its muddled moralizing on civil rights, sandwiched into its brutal, juicily detailed lynchings, makes an unappetizing dish. By contrast, the Cinecolor is fairly sweet and clean...