Word: gooey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question of about the same importance now confronts the world of letters: Who wrote the novel that contains this gooey hooey? Jean Harlow wrote it, with the help of an M-G-M journeyman. Completed before Harlow's death, the manuscript has been hidden away for the past 32 years. Published last week in the midst of a harrowing Harlow revival, Today Is Tonight (Grove Press; $5) reads like the first crude script of a Harlow movie-happy but sappy, and crammed with such insights as: "Funny that a man should want you tanned all over." An earnest preface...
...Vienna made me," he says. By that, Hundertwasser means that he embodies in his work all the blend of crumbling worldliness and gooey sensuality of a Linzertorte. Like his native city, which lies on the fringes of the Western world, his work flirts with the Far East, draws from such predecessors as Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt as well as the tendrilous enticements of Jugendstil or art nouveau. He mingles oils and tempera with gold and silver foil, beeswax, and bits of peat moss and sand to make his almost bitter, labyrinthine pastries...
...cheap sentimentality of the "Our Song" variety ("Play it again, Sam"). But, happily, it's easy to get in the mood for that sort of thing, and both Ingrid Bergman's charm and beauty, and Bogart's biting cynicism raise the film above the level of the ordinary gooey melodrama...
...current mush rooming of alloplasty had to await the proliferation of synthetic plastics. Most of the materials now favored are the polymers (basically familiar molecules in unfamiliar, complex arrangements), such as nylon, Dacron and Plexiglas. But even more widely useful are the silicones,* which may be solid or as gooey as engine...
...months, is not really old enough. So he quickly lost interest in England's annual Badminton Horse Trials and began wandering. Pretty soon he spotted the mud-covered straw that was spread around because of the rain and got a great idea. He tossed a handful of the gooey stuff at a kind-looking lady standing near by. The kind-looking lady turned out to be Queen Mother Elizabeth. She was surprised and laughed politely, but she didn't move away. So he threw a couple more handfuls. Then someone stopped him, and Charles Race had to think...