Word: globs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defense of Paul Ricard, inventor of the finest drink since sour mash [Feb. 25]. Your reporter, probably an undercover man for the W.C.T.U., has slandered the drinking man's Thomas Edison in saying that ice added to Ricard's pastis turns the licorice into a gooey glob. I modestly claim the record for annual consumption by an American of this delightful brew, and have yet to find a single glob in any of my well-iced drinks. Retract your calumny against this benefactor of mankind...
...Dijon in the Burgundy wine country. Eight bottling plants have also been opened in other European nations and in North Africa: this year Ricard is contemplating the American market. One problem: Americans, who like ice in their drinks, will discover that it congeals the licorice into a gooey glob...
...twist to parody the Last Supper, and the "sons of the Danube" show up in SS uniforms. The corps de ballet wear costumes that come close to perfection in their imitation of nudity, and their dances have an angular brutality. Faust appears as the prisoner of a giant glob of seaweed, suspended above the stage in a play of lights that have the harsh glare of misery. Mephistopheles is a sexual chameleon-a lover of "perverse roses," a force of violent poetry...
...cigar-shaped strip in the East River, north of the U.N., between Long Island and Manhattan, Welfare Island was once a penitentiary, now is occupied by nurses' homes, hospitals for the aged and poor, and homes for wayward girls. Apart from the institutions, the island is a ramshackle glob of decrepit buildings, weeds and trash. The plan, sponsored by wealthy Real Estate Operator Roger L. Stevens and Financier Frederick Richmond, is to tear down everything on the island except one hospital and to build a concrete platform, 22 feet high, over most of the land...
...TIME'S cover-ink supply at low ebb? Or was it the intention of Artist Artzybasheff to depict a mass of colorful individuals who, upon entering through college portals, are alchemized into a great grey glob of flannel-suited, conforming nonentities...