Word: jello
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...birds-which, among other things, represent the hollow, doomed magnificence of British India-are the kind of florid symbol delighted in by artful writers but often ruinous to a novel; the reader is so taken with the symbolic whipped cream on top that he leaves the nourishing narrative jello beneath untasted. Skillfully, Author Scott mixes the two richly and inextricably together...
...sleep up a storm." said one, "especially if it's raining." A man joined them. "Got up about noon," he said. "Went down to Williams Park and read the paper. Went home and took a nap. Ate at the Driftwood-soup, roast beef, carrots, mashed potatoes. JellO, coffee for $1.25. Went to prayer meeting. Heard a lecture. Moseyed out here to see who's here...
Among the U.S. products still standing watch over their good names, still demanding Upper-Case billing in news stories, novels and shopping columns: Erector Set, Band-Aid, Dixie cup, JellO, Jeep, Laundromat, Kleenex. Deepfreeze, Levi's (blue jeans). Dry Ice, Simoniz, Spray Net and Zipper...
...there's one more thing against it; Mr. Ooze himself. He, it turns out, is a four-year-old child who has had the misfortune to be born without any bones (he is played manfully by a sackful of brown Jello). His parents' names are Joseph and Mary Carpenter. Mr. Brown's tasteless and callous sacrilege would be dreadful if it had any meaning...
...help rephrasing a familiar homily. Once, after making a too-transparent reference to Operation Abolition he received a record quantity of adverse mail. To one woman, who had written "I can't decide whether you're a pinko or a yellowo," Feiffer replied, "Better yellow than Jello...