Word: pied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brady had refined her techniques to the point of excellence, while keeping her pictures childishly simple In content. The combination was as appetizing as pie à la mode. With her first Paris show (TIME, May 13, 1946), O'Brady was hailed by one critic as "the only great painter of the New World...
...Laffmovie is one of a chain of three, the other two being in Baltimore and New York. Since the founding in 1943 the policy has remained pretty constant, "the more custard pies per reel the better." There have been deviations into more sophisticated comedy of the "Topper" type, "but," says the Boston advertising manager, "the kids didn't get the hang of the double entendre," And so, since the giants of the deadpan and the thrown pie are no more, the theater sticks to the oldies. "There are very few good new ones," the Laffmovie's spokesman says sorrowfully...
...world with higher prices all around. Everyone, as expected, put the blame on everyone else. Foreign nations blamed the U.S. for the high prices, which had sucked away their cash, without conceding that their buying had helped boost the prices. Corporations took a big cut out of the income pie; net corporate profits after taxes (including the "paper" profits on inventories) of $17.4 billion were up 39% over net profits in 1946. (But corporations still had a smaller share of the total income than...
...Marx brothers are survivals of a vanishing era. They, together with buffoons Bobby Clark and Bert Lahr, and screenmen Laurel and Hardy, are the last of a unique school of slapstick comedians. Spawned in old-time vaudeville and burlesque, the brothers excel in the highly specialized arts of pantomime, pie throwing, and provocative leering at women, while our present generation of couriers relies chiefly on flip lines and artless mugging. Slapstick is passing out of existence, but not out of date. Until a new generation of wits rediscover the art, go down to the Laffmovie and rear at the last...
...thousand three hundred University students yesterday voted two to one to delete broad from on meal a day, to forego pie on day per week, and to cut wheat cereals from their breakfasts three days out of seven...