Word: filtering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Capote dramatizes his conversation with elaborate hand gestures. He has a deft trick of touching his tongue, presumably for loose tobacco ("I never smoke those filter-tips; nothing comes through"), and then touching his fingers lightly on a napkin in his lap. He has a high nervous laugh when excited about something, and postures his head in a series of attentive or thoughtful attitudes...
Puccini: Madame Butterfly (Anna Moffo, Cesare Valletti, Rosalind Elias, Renato Cesari. Fernando Corena; Rome Opera House Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf; RCA Victor, 3 LPs). A young cast attempts to filter the turgid dramatic tars so often found in Puccini's graceful "thread of smoke." as he called it. The result is a bright and bracing version, full of rarely realized charms. Soprano Moffo's Cio-Cio-San is vocally arresting, more woman than Japanese doll...
FROM United States Tobacco Co. came an announcement this week that it has changed the filter and tobacco of its King Sano brand so that the smoke now carries "26% less tar than any other cigarette." Of ten major brands in fierce competition for the filter-cigarette business, five claim that their filters filter best-and each backs its claim with an impressive array of tests. The argument over which to believe has interested the Federal Trade Commission and Congress. Says Congressman John A. Blatnik, chairman of a House subcommittee that investigated cigarette advertising: "There are so many claims...
...problem is important because filters are largely responsible for the new boom in cigarettes. After a sharp dip in 1953-54, when medical tests indicating a cancer-cigarette link were widely publicized, sales have come back to hit a new record this year (see chart). Smokers worried about tar and nicotine pushed filters, with their "thousands of filter traps," to 38.5% of the market last year, will increase the percentage to 45% of a market that promises to top $5 billion...
...produces higher tar yields for longer cigarettes. Another argument rages over what to report. American Tobacco measures "total solids" in smoke. Competitors have found that "solids" include tar, nicotine and some moisture; thus the advantage goes to American Tobacco's Hit Parade brand, whose tissue-paper-like filter absorbs more moisture than competing cellulose acetate filters. Hit Parade also claims "over 400,000 filter traps"; Lorillard says it could claim millions of traps for its fast-rising Kent but does not, holding that the number of traps means nothing...