Word: milks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promoter and something of a blooper himself, but he did have an ear for such things as the introduction by Radio Announcer Harry Von Zell of President "Hoobert Heever," as well as the interesting message: "This portion of Woman on the Run is brought to you by Phillips' Milk of Magnesia." Bloopers are the lowlife of verbal error, but spoonerisms are a different fettle of kitsch. In the early 1900s the Rev. William Archibald Spooner caused a stir at New College, Oxford, with his famous spoonerisms, most of which were either deliberate or apocryphal. But a real...
...news alarmed coffee drinkers, triggered news stories on television and in the papers, inspired a number of bad jokes during the coffee break. ("Good till the last drop.") Some people switched to tea or milk. Others felt guilty as they went on enjoying coffee as usual. But after the report was released the price of coffee on the futures market did not drop. It went up slightly. Critics of the study, including the National Coffee Association, representing a $7 billion-a-year industry, point out several drawbacks in the study. The hospitalized patients were simply asked how many cups...
...version of the same fantasy. This time the woman's lover is Freud's son; the disasters expand to include a landslide and a cable car that plunges to earth. New guests regularly replace the dead at the white hotel. The woman's breasts flow with milk, which she gives freely to everyone: "She wondered if she had grown obsessed with sex." She confides this fear to her lover: "And if I'm not thinking about sex, I'm thinking about death...
...whom Lisa thought dead. Oddly, Freud, who died in 1939, is there too, as is her mother, who perished in a hotel fire decades earlier. The two women walk and talk calmly about the mother's infidelities and the daughter's response, so many years ago. Their milk flows. They are happy, beyond pleasure and pain...
Ward's approach provokes thought, but too often her symbols become stereotypes removed from the realities of the society. The church seems too milk-white, beneficently bestowing its noble goodness on peasants and Guardia alike. The revolutionaries seem too selfish, petulant and shallow. The audience hears the superficial fire of the speeches, but too seldom can see the real fire in the minds of the faithful, whether churchgoers or revolutionaries...