Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaf from Arthur Miller's family album, bound with concern for matters of responsibility and irresponsibility. Pat Hingle and Arthur Kennedy play two brothers who, after 16 years, meet in the attic of their former house to thrash out the price to be paid for old possessions and fresh guilts...
They are canning tomatoes now, not the old familiar stewed tomato, but regular fresh tomatoes, cut up and sold as "Canned fresh tomato slices." The new product is advertised on television: happy families eating tomatoes in their salad, smiling as they munch the nutritious tomato slices...
...there is clearly no rational reason to can a tomato; in fact, tomatoes can be bought more cheaply fresh. We see in the canned tomato an example of the purely symbolic action: the benefits of canning a tomato are entirely psychic. And there must be a market for this symbolic action, for no manufacturer will produce a million articles that satisfy only his own neurotic needs. After all, this is America...
Much of what goes on between is vintage burlesque-blackouts, slapstick, even knock-knock jokes. Yet, by exploiting the full range of such technical possibilities as zooming closeups and quick cuts, the show has fashioned a fresh new form of rapid-fire TV comedy...
...eccentricities, Lane is a third-generation banker whose father was Citizens & Southern's longtime president. Lane himself joined the bank as a clerk after his graduation from Yale in 1934, soon found that the Depression had left Atlanta's banking community "old and tired." Churning with fresh ideas, he rose quickly through the ranks, becoming a first vice president in 1939. When Lane, still only 34, moved up to president in 1946 (his father had died the year before), he took over a bank that was lagging far behind Atlanta's First National, the city...