Word: panning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meal was cooked right on the table, on a small, single-burner hot plate made of stainless steel. The girl deposited a frying pan on the burner, dumped in several pounds of chicken fat, covered the chicken fat with a mixture of chopped herbs, and proceeded to pour on a thick, sordid potion...
...discreetly dumped the remainder of my plate into the frying pan, and gazed raptly at the chipped white...
...career extending from On the Town to The King and I and Peter Pan, Jerome Robbins has provided more high spots and fewer letdowns than almost any other Broadway creator. And in West Side Story he has made the feet that propel the production equally the shoulders on which it rests. A master of patterned action, he has established the tensions, the instinctive hates and induced animosities, the juvenile-delinquent heroics and brooding-outcast rancors of Manhattan's native-born Jets and Puerto Rican Sharks. His switchblade rumblers jeer and snort, crouch and slither and spring. Beyond vitalizing their...
...painter, who took up art as a hobby while working as a carpenter, gained worldwide fame in the '20s, sold his work on commission and by the square foot (price range: 50?-$2), and often signed his paintings with odd names: The Old Vagabond, The Disciple of Lu Pan (god of carpenters), The Old Man of the Apricot Orchard; in Peking. Living with 30 relatives (he supported about 50) in a rambling house, Ch'ih painted chicks, crickets, shrimp and crabs, occasionally a landscape ("Only the rich have known landscapes, but every ricksha boy knows a shrimp...
...National Planning Association, fought hard to get the fund established. But the attack on Hollister was a sharp reminder that the fight is far from over. Even harder fighting will be required to make the law effective. Hollister's successor at the ICA, James Smith, 47, onetime Pan American World Airways vice president, is well aware of the problems ahead-and the objectives. Said he: "We must undertake to help other countries become of age and attain economic growth. And by help I do not mean giveaways. I mean that same kind of sensible, useful help that you would...