Word: mop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tensions of both. In the swampy south and in Kordofan live the eccentric Nuers (who stand for hours, like cranes or herons, on one leg), the equally naked Nuba (whose chief adornments are grotesque, cicatrized tribal scars on cheeks and foreheads), and, along the Red Sea coast, the mop-haired Hadendowa (Kipling's Fuzzy-Wuzzies, who "broke a British square"). Inevitably, the primitive southerners distrust and dislike their more sophisticated Arabic countrymen in the north, who used to swoop down on their villages and carry off their sons and daughters for sale as slaves in the marts...
...softens a calculated abortion to an involuntary miscarriage, and lets a couple of villains become last-reel good guys. But there is still too much meaningless blood and lust in Peyton Place. The film collapses, during one of the least convincing murder trials ever filmed, when it tries to mop up the whole mess by blaming it on the town's callousness and nasty-minded curiosity. Peyton Place is not nasty at all; in glowing CinemaScope, it looks like the exurb where good commuters go when they...
...will be replaced by white men, one will remain: Sir Walter Raleigh, whose haughty, sardonic British accent seems to make hipsters flip. Says Raleigh, as he lays on such "crazy wax" as O Bop She Bop and Rockin' Pneumonia: "Well, chaps, that's the way the mop flops. Lads and deicers, we're feeling rather geometric this afternoon, yes, indeedy, we have happy sounds coming up; a jolly good show, what...
...women think Robert Kennedy is a "doll." Well, to me he is just a mop-haired, ambitious young Catholic whose father made his fortune out of banking, Wall Street and selling Scotch whisky. As to brother John for President, in spite of the frenetic buildup being given him, let us remember that America is primarily a Protestant country and the majority of our people would not want a man who believes in a foreign ideology to stand at the helm of our Government...
...Manhattan apartment to the broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, only to run into serious dusting dilemmas. "If I were not saddled with the Metropolitan, I would clean in the following order: straighten up the room, dust Venetian blinds, clean window sills, brush lampshades and upholstered furniture, dust surfaces, mop floor, vacuum rugs . . . This order makes sense: it chases the dirt from above to below. But operas don't work this...