Word: pablum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure what music is today," Eric von Schmidt says. "The word is applied to punk rockers and discos and everything down to bubble gum... I wonder when they're going to get to the pablum audience...
...year, might just pull out a victory. Even if he does, the nation is unlikely to see any substantial change in Texas's leadership on economic issues. And Lone Star liberals will still be waiting for the knight on a white horse who will save them from pissants and pablum...
Marshall concedes that television also hurt by nightly providing child-oriented family Pablum for free. So did fears about the prowling dangers of the big city. The Music Hall has recently done two-thirds of its business before 6 p.m. because, as Marshall sees it, families in the metropolitan area were wary of riding the subway at night. Meanwhile, countermeasures such as budget trimming (the Music Hall dropped its ballet troupe three years ago) and trying to draw new audiences with mid night rock concerts failed to turn things around...
...they came to Los Angeles. For the most part they were, like Fitzgerald's character Pat Hobby, well-paid and kicked around. Men like Trumbo and Adrian Scott were filled with electric energy when they got to Hollywood to work, but the movies turned almost everything they did to pablum...
Spunky Air. First Monday in October is intellectual and ideological Pablum seasoned with a few smart Broadway-style gags. What may one say of the two actors in whose presence count less Americans can stir up memories of their own youth? Douglas, 74, is a sly fox of an actor with great skill, and he makes Justice Snow a personable charmer. Jean Arthur, 70, still has the raspy little girl's voice that people remember from 1930s movies and a spunky air of perennial optimism. But the stage has never been her home...