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Word: pablum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Berle kidded Jack Kennedy's youth ("He's drinking Pablum on the rocks"), and the trade columnists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Meanwhile, in Hollywood | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

Actress Hayworth, the onetime pinup girl, has now mastered the role of the beat-down broad, and when she is on-camera, she holds the show in shape. When she is not, the suspense dissolves into a mess of sentimental pablum-hardly the dish a customer expects from Playwright Clifford (Waiting for Lefty] Odets. Scriptwriter Odets here takes his first crack in 15 years at directing a picture, and perhaps should be forgiven some errors of inexperience. But seasoned Producer Jerry Wald might have done something about Actor Franciosa, an almost comically intense young man who reads every line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 25, 1960 | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

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