Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finds its own level?", are difficult to answer in the negative except by flat-earth men and extreme skeptics. Comes at last the big moment when the well-quizzed reader reaches the pages containing his analysis ("Yourself as you really are") and settles down to a tasty feast of ham-and-egoism. "You are a fraud-a clever, charming, amusing fraud"; "You may be regarded ... as highly intelligent, yet your intelligence is curiously limited, sterile, and stunted"; "In many respects you are not a bad woman"; "You are a bit like a character out of a Chekhov play...
...Ham Sandwich. Today the lights are not so hot, but neither is the outlook for TV cooks. Last week Boston, hub of New England cookery, could boast only two half-hour cooking spots a week. Chicago had only two TV cooks. San Francisco, whose cooking ranks with the best in the U.S., had none. The trend was the same in other parts of the country...
Many showmen seem a little ashamed of the cooking part of the show, and often sandwich it like an old piece of dry ham between a slice of news and a slice of music, both considered more substantial and more palatable...
...Blue's ace, Bill Cranston, took only a little over 20 minutes to defeat Ham Gravem, 6-0, 6-2. Cranston, who is the only one of Yale's first five players not graduating this year, displayed a very aggressive game, frequently rushing the net behind his cannonball serve...
...otherworldly as their titles (Strata No. 1, Tones of Silence, Pad '55). Only here and there does an oldtimer hold out. Ben Shahn in Second Super Market makes a tasteful composition out of wire grocery carts; the '303 echo in Philip Evergood's Quick Lunch, a ham-handed working man swigging a soft drink; Morris Graves's Bird is deftly caught on thin rice paper with a Chinese economy of line. But they are small islands of representation in a swirl of abstraction. Emphasizing the trend is Brooklyn Museum's only U.S. purchase. Two Points...