Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Please do not touch!" reads the sign posted beside the display of still lifes on exhibit in the University of Wisconsin's Library Gallery in Madison. But the fascinating assortment of smoking pipes, fiddles, Confederate bills, newspaper scraps and crumpled chewing-gum wrappers-all seeming to leap out of the canvases in vivid perspective-is too tempting. Furtively many a viewer last week glanced around to see if anyone was watching, then probed gently at the paintings to see whether the pictures actually were painted or just pasted...
Last week a 'Cliffe administration ruling imposed tight "Harvard-like restrictions on all 'Cliffedwellers in examinations. But the Annex Student Council has reacted to the order and issued an ultimatum to Dean of Residence Emily Lacey. It demands that 'Cliffedwellers continue to be allowed to "chew gum and suck lollipops" in examinations...
Married. Guy Madison (real name: Robert Moseley), 32, onetime dimpled Hollywood juvenile (Since You Went Away) and current hero of the bubble-gum set as TV's Wild Bill Hickok; and Sheilah Connolly, 24, TV actress; each for the second time (his first: Actress Gail Russell; hers: Producer Harry Danziger); in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico...
...this casual thriller, Dana Andrews, Gent Tierney and Judith Anderson are the other points of interest. Andrews proves he's a hard-bitten detective type by chewing gum, and Miss Tierney struggles with valor to live up to her role as the world's sweetest girl. Miss Anderson, being an almost hallowed institution of American drama, is beyond criticism, since everything she does is more or less perfect...
...Well, I really did feel I had every right in the world to resist the insipid protocol of turning my private life into the kind of running serial you find on bubble-gum wrappers. You can't just take sensitive parts of yourself and splatter them around like so much popcorn butter. Personal freedom has always been terribly important to me, and I have carried aloofness as a sort of banner to my sense of freedom...