Word: papping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play is pap for sentimental housewives who, to begin with, love watching a husband & wife (Hume Cronyr & Jessica Tandy) play a husband & wife.* And though she is short on comedy? and he just short of farce, they play their roles well, give things a professional air. The play itself is full of the standard details and recognitions pf marriage: its conversational small change and domestic small changes, its emotional freezing and boiling points, male obstinacies and female whims. Some of these are lively, rather more are dull, but all are such cliches that the play could have been written...
JOURNALISM. Since the murder of La Prensa (TIME, March 12, et seq.), Buenos Aires' last surviving independent daily is La Natión-proud, conservative, accurate. Argentines who hunger for honest news instead of government pap now queue up at the paper's office at 6 a.m. to buy the few extra copies available (Perón controls the newsprint and holds the circulation down to 180,000 daily). Dealers sell copies for 25 times the normal price. When La Natión reported last week's rail strike factually instead of parroting the government line...
Sirens screaming and horn ablare, Benton & Bowles are riding the air. Tinsel and paint and a jester's cap, Tinkling bells and a moit of pap, Under our elms and over our maples Selling themselves as they sold their staples...
...likely to start a right jolly little bookslide. She has done it, as before, by main shrewdness, by the use of a prose so obvious that it can (and almost has to) be read under a hair-dryer, and by a skill in mixing the formula for bestselling pap that should keep her customers cooing for more...