Word: dose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wiggiest Kick. No debutante cotillion or country-club dance is complete these days without a heavy dose of rock 'n' roll. At a charity ball on the roof of the St. Regis Hotel, some of Manhattan's highest society wiggled around the dance floor doing the mule, flapping their hands like mules' ears to the thudding beat of Lester Lanin's orchestra. "It's good for your health," says Lanin, who beefs up his society band with a rock 'n' roll trio called the Rocking Chairs...
Mucked Down, Padded Out. Mrs. Crist is not only honest; she is blunt. She wrote of Where Love Has Gone: "A trashy dose of sex-and-soap . . . being palmed off on us on the premise that we go to the movies to see smuttied-up, padded-out, mucked-down television serials in Technicolor and Techniscope." Of Anne Bancroft's performance in The Pumpkin Eater, she said: "She seems a cowlike creature with no aspirations or intellect above her pelvis...
...often brash-young men, gave them a free hand to teach Auntie how to twist. One of the brightest results was a free-swinging satiric show called That Was the Week That Was, which lampooned everything in sight, most particularly the then ruling Tories. It proved such a dose of acid and old lace that as last year's elections approached, Greene felt it prudent to close it down...
...quirks, a few inky caps contain the chemical disulfiram, better known by its trade name, Antabuse. This happens to be a drug that has no effect on teetotalers but makes a man sick if he takes a drink. The four unhappy mushroom hunters found that a moderate dose was enough to teach a sharp lesson...
...were scrawled (forerunners of later balloons), the jug-eared little tough got away with sadism that is no longer permitted. He bashed his pals over the head with a golf club, pummeled a little Negro boy while a goat nibbled his woolly hair. Other kids followed: the Katzenjammers ("Mit dose kidds, society iss nix"), Buster Brown, Little Nemo, and the long-gone Kinder Kids, a strip exquisitely drawn by the cubist artist Lyonel Feininger...