Word: gumming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carmine red as an intestinal tracer. Cases of cubana salmonellosis in three other states were traced to carmine red, and supplies were called in. So far, so good. But authorities have been checking other places for carmine red, knowing that it is a favorite coloring in candy, chewing gum, ice cream, cough syrups and drugs. Manufacturers like to use it because of a legal quirk: being a natural rather than a synthetic product, it does not have to be mentioned on labels...
Golden Luster. Then there is the matter of the Great Varnish Mystery. Stradivari used a tacky concoction provided by a local apothecary, the known ingredients of which were oil, gum resin and vegetable coloring. But the precise proportions and the method of application remain unknown. Luthiers have been experimenting with secret formulas for decades, but so far none has been able to match the resiliency, golden luster and lasting power of Stradivari's "pasta." Varnish, contends London Violin Dealer Desmond Hill, is all-important because "it acts as a shock absorber. If the finish is too hard, it makes...
...more sympathetic to the U.S. than any other French publication and is less strident in its criticism of the U.S. role in Viet Nam. But it also makes a point of defending French standards against the onslaught of foreign customs, has tried to ban everything from bubble gum to the English-language prefix "super." "We've always been non-engage," says Editor Louis Gabriel-Robinet. "We've never belonged to any political party-just the party of balance...
...into a kind of choreographic ritual of modern life, urban herds shuffling to and fro, the commuter's lock step, a cocktail party. It is apparent that interviewers and applicants alike need help: instead of the bread of life, they are fed vacuous cliches by intellectual bubble-gum blowhards representing the church, state, politics and psychoanalysis. One of the self-frocked priests of the Freudian age opens his mouth to say: "Blah, blah, blah, blah-hostile. Blah, blah, blah, blah-penis. Blah, blah, blah, blah -mother. Blah, blah, blah, blah-money...
...four make war on Raza's remote desert stronghold is the raw meat of The Professionals, and there hasn't been a livelier western whoop-up since Villain Palance bared fang and claw against Shane. Only once does the action slow down, during a gum battle between Palance and Lancaster, who seem to be firing off philosophical asides about the life of violence mainly because they need a rest. Most of the dialogue has a whiplash sting, and since the scenario is chiefly concerned with ambushes and train holdups and muscle-hard suspense, there is seldom time...