Word: dishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their efforts (as many as 80 reviews a season), the critics often get more criticism than they dish out. They have been denounced by producers, directors, playwrights and actors as "despots," the "Jukes family of journalism," and "spiteful" men who are "not qualified to do their jobs either by taste or training." With every opening, the controversy flares up anew: How powerful are the newspaper critics? What is the critics' job? How well do they do it? What effect do they really have on the theater...
...Tone is disconcerted to learn from a new patient that his bride-to-be has a lurid past. A second patient, Anne Jackson, reveals that her embittered movie-star husband has decided to seduce Tone's fiancee to see if the analyst "can take it as well as dish...
...column, a new dish is seldom simply "good"; instead, when it was put before her, "a happy little moan escaped the lips." She can embellish even the fluffiest souffle with her brandied prose: "It came perfumed of the hot sugared fruit and toned with the magic of some liqueur . . . The waiter's spoon dipped in. and the souffle responded with a rapturous, half-hushed sigh as it settled softly to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream...
...University, she studies aerial navigation, has soloed an Aeronca but has still to get her pilot's license. On the ground, in the kitchens of the U.S., she has no trouble finding her way around. "American tastes," says Clem, "are moving toward greater simplicity. Now one really good dish plus a good vegetable and a salad makes a dinner. Salads have come into great popularity-there's hardly a meal without them." To make a salad is simple. Take a radish, not just an ordinary radish "but a tiny radish of the passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white...
...atmosphere is more subtle: air conditioning, deckle-edged swimming pools (with extravagant poolside displays of bathing beauties), fine food at fair prices, top entertainment, well-irrigated golf courses. But all are mere Strip teasers. In Paradise (A or B) as in the Gulch, gambling is the main dish...