Word: oatmealization
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...Book contains many interesting suggestions for idle little hands. Like D-is-for-Daddy: "See Daddy sleeping on the couch. See Daddy's hair. Daddy needs a haircut. Poor Daddy. Daddy has no money for a haircut. Daddy spends all his money to buy you toys and oatmeal. Poor Daddy cannot have a haircut. See the scissors . . . Poor poor poor poor Daddy...
...list of minor inconveniences in packaging is endless: scouring-powder lids that rust, cylindrical salt and oatmeal containers that take up unnecessary room; jars too hard to open; vacuum lids impossible to close...toothpaste caps that get lost; bags of flour that invariably spill; bread that goes stale because of skimpywrapping...
Since ABC discovered that stupendous profits can be made through the production of stupendous mediocrity, the other two networks have conformed nicely, performing the difficult feat of lowering their own standards. From precooked oatmeal to precast bullets, everyone is importing packaged pap from Hollywood by the case. But above all, the 1961-62 television season may go down in history as the year that canned laughter made its greatest comeback. Every new sitchcom (adspeak for situation comedy) is a masterpiece of electronic control: three hees and a hah for a cracking knuckle or a lifted eyebrow, a two-decibel avalanche...
...Clan in the first place. And so the program lurched toward the murky end. Gleason: "I'm loaded." Lemmon: "I know that." Mannes: "I feel like a deaf mute in a field of hog callers." Joe E. Lewis: "Out of the mouths of babes very often comes-oatmeal...
...office wall he keeps a picture of a pre-eminent Catholic churchman whom he calls "Johnny." He admits that he lives more like a hermit than a bishop. He has no servants, eats lunch out with priests or nuns, and for dinner has only a bowl of oatmeal-followed sometimes by a cigar and a glass of sherry...