Word: gooey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reported French Ethnologist Jehan Vellard, who has watched the process in Brazil's Mato Grosso, and now works in Peru. The essential components are dissolved out of the roots or stalks with cold or tepid water, and the solution is concentrated by heating. The finished product is a gooey paste. Natives have no fear of inhaling its vapors or of putting their hands in it, and they judge its strength by the bitterness of a drop, which they nonchalantly taste...
...married roomate's security alternates with his pity of the trapped spouse. Pope manages to give his story a pervading atmosphere of pregnancy, domesticity, and security. Unfortunately, however, this profusion of warmth carries over a little too much into the narrator's thoughts--he, in short, becomes rather gooey. One cannot criticize Pope for not conforming in an age of understatement, but it seems that his story might have been more effective if, especially in the first part, he had toned down his narrator's agitation just...
...admitted that at least 20 million dog lovers might appreciate this picture, but the other moviegoers are going to be sadly disappointed with the gooey sentiment, the stark horror, and naggingly reminiscent tunes. I hope you don't get run over by the Brinks truck as it leaves the box office for the bank...
Walt Disney has for so long parlayed gooey sentiment and stark horror into profitable cartoons that most moviegoers are apt to be more surprised than disappointed to discover that the combination somehow does not work this time. The songs, by Peggy Lee and Sonny Burke, are naggingly reminiscent of other tunes, but none of the cartoon creatures-except, possibly, a whistling beaver playing a bit part-have a fraction of the lovable charm of those in Disney's earlier fables...
Ohio State, sparked by surehanded Quarterback Dave Leggett and All-America Halfback Howard ("Hopalong") Cassady, unlimbered its crunching ground offensive, mixed in a few artful passes, got three touchdowns. The Buckeyes held on to the ball incredibly well in the gooey going, not fumbling once, whereas the Trojans fumbled often, losing three of their bobbles to Ohio State. Final score: Ohio State 20, Southern...