Word: lumping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Choi's wife suddenly dropped the charges, agreed to accept their four children and a lump sum of $31,000 in alimony. Wan and unsmiling, the lovers emerged from prison. Kim hurried off to a hospital, complaining of "low blood pressure." Choi read an Orientally opaque statement saying the two would "now reconsider relations." In the meantime, because Korean stars are paid only $2,500 a film for their assembly-line endeavors, both are planning to sell their houses so that they can pay off Mrs. Choi...
This is rural tragedy; by squeezing humanity in a Granadan village into an even more primitive lump than it actually is, Lorca wanted to fill his stage with constricting unreality: characters talk to each other in indirect but elemental metaphors, and one character, Death as a beggar-woman, actually exists as such a metaphor. Even the Moon comes on to make a speech. The simple trouble is that like nearly all rural tragedy Blood Wedding is the sort of melodrama into which actors are reluctant to empty their energies, and that therefore strikes audiences as faintly embarrassing vulgarity...
...first been married to Robert McAdoo, son of President Wilson's Treasury Secretary. She is now married to Kentucky's Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper, and is a good friend of President and Mrs. Kennedy's. In divorcing Shevlin, Lorraine was ultimately granted a lump settlement...
From Mariner's radioed reports, scientists hope to put together information that will help them decide about the possibility of Venusian life. But even if they decide that Venus is a lifeless lump in space, Mariner II may still provide the basic data that will some day help man to plan his first voyage to the nearest planet...
...ever seen, but nobody's mad." In the carnival atmosphere, pitchmen picked up many a rapid dollar peddling balloons to kids. "Is this American or Cuban sugar?" asked one apprehensive citizen. Assured the U.S. was buying no sugar from Cuba these days, he munched his lump with satisfaction. Another man had another problem: "I've been drinking...