Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rainbow Island (Paramount) is a Technicolored mythical kingdom somewhere west of Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, inhabited by Dorothy Lamour and sarong, three shipwrecked seamen (Eddie Bracken, Gil Lamb, Barry Sullivan), and assorted natives. It involves: 1) an aquacade sequence-a ritual of "purification" for Miss Lamour; 2) a comedy act involving Eddie Bracken and a very hungry man-eating flower; 3) some amusingly parodistic Oriental music by Roy Webb and a catchy song, The Boogie, Woogie, Boogie Man; 4) enough general ribbing of sarong and tomtom pictures to make a thin but fairly likable piece of musical ridiculousness...
...Butcher shops had little pork, prime beef, lamb or turkeys to sell. Farmers sold most of their hogs last spring, have few to market now. Nearly 40% of the four better grades of beef was set aside for the armed forces. The nation's 36,000,000 turkeys were held off the market until the Government placed its orders for 80,000,000 pounds. By last week the Army had nearly filled its needs and turkeys may again be sold to civilians (see U.S. AT WAR). But there will not be enough birds for Thanksgiving and Christmas...
...profession of faith at the Credo there is the theme of Blow Your Trumpet, Gabriel. At the Sanctus and Benedictus ("Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord") are the melo dies of Goin' Home and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, and at the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) the devout and placid music of Deep River...
...Most notorious artistic collaboration was Vichy Minister of Education Abel Bonnard's gift to Hermann Göring of the Van Eycks' famed Ghent altarpiece, Adoration of the Lamb...
...ideas on eating are 1) never to satisfy his hunger completely at any one meal; 2) never to eat sugar (because he believes sugar crystals get in people's blood streams and cause infections). He takes a healthy, if restrained, interest in such substantial items as roast beef, lamb and pork chops, baked potatoes, butter, cream. His present enthusiasm for wheat is more industrial than dietary, like his onetime predictions that roads would some day be paved with coffee beans, and automobiles be made, in part at least, from cantaloupes...