Word: ice-cream
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...medium-sized French land holdings, whose owners had paid better wages than does the government, was far from popular, and no one seemed to think that Algeria's economic misery would be solved by last week's nationalization of 43 butcher shops, 30 bakeries, and several ice-cream and soda-pop factories. The crowds that turned out to hear his speeches were notably unenthusiastic...
...producers have created a kind of New Wave western, using simple realism as their strongest tool. They evoke it with sounds: a transistor radio in de Wilde's shirt pocket twanging hillbilly anthems, the slamming of a screen door on a hot night, the screak-screak of the ice-cream freezer on the back porch, the relentless whistling of the wind scorching in off the plains, the brutal whump of the springs of the Cadillac as it guns across the railroad tracks. They also evoke it with the black-and-white camera of Old Master James Wong Howe...
...comic Hercules of the evening is Bert Lahr, who performs six mighty comic labors in six parts. His funniest role: a senile ice-cream tycoon whose favorite political flavor is Birch. Lahr creases his wrinkles, crosses his eyes, and shows all of his time-honored wizardry with the japes and antics of burlesque...
...industrial giant with assets of $503 million before retiring from active management in 1948 to start a second career. Buying some 100,000 acres in the Bahamas and Florida, he farmed some of the land, developed the rest, and before long had money coming in from resorts, housing, ice-cream plants, a shipping company and an airline...
...tentatively raised soft voices of comment within the limits set down by the regime, Dery cloaked his reaction to the changing times in silence. He published nothing, was inaccessible to visiting Westerners, even remained aloof from other Hungarian writers. Occasionally he was seen in the street carrying an ice-cream cone to his wife, who edits U.S. news for the Communist Party newspaper...