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Word: pies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Director Edwards' accumulation of cliches explodes around the world, pausing for Curtis to demonstrate his torso and his skill with the epee, and for Lemmon to do a tedious bit as a faggish Mittel-European prince. No pastiche of the old masters would be complete without a pie fight. This one is the Ben-Hur of pie fights-it splatters more than 2,000 real cream pies of assorted flavors, and took five days to shoot. The scene even has a plot: Will Tony Curtis get one in the snoot or won't he? Or would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sock & Row | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

Decorative Futility? Although this split decision was diplomatically designed to please everybody, those few people who still think art prizes mean more than pumpkin pie awards at a county fair were hardly satisfied. Rio's O Globo labeled Burri's latest "the mere decorative futility of burnt holes in transparent plastic." Correio da Manha simply called the prizes "a scandal." Surely exaggerated, but the overall impact of the São Paulo Bienal was like that of most conventions-fatigue and confusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Biennial Bash in Brazil | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

...fallen on hard times; their share of the entire ice cream market has dropped from 4% to 1% in the past four years. And the future looks equally frosty. In an effort to cut costs, Good Humor, which enjoys by far the largest slice of the mobile ice cream pie, has stopped dispensing napkins with its novelties. And letting droopsicles drip all over party dresses will hardly melt the opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food & Drink: Sticky Business | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

...campaign, Stevenson insisted only upon trying to talk "sense to the American people" and avoiding what he called the "nauseous nonsense, the pie-in-the-sky appeals to cupidity and greed, the cynical trifling with passion and prejudice and fear, the slander, the fraudulent promises, and the all-things-to-all-men demagoguery." He didn't have much hope that he would win over Dwight Eisenhower. "You know," he said to a friend, "you really can't beat a household commodity-the catchup bottle on the kitchen table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: The Graceful Loser | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

...going well when someone knocked at the door. Mrs. Foster opened it to discover a student, cream pie in hand. She remembers thinking "the course is a success!" just before the pie hit her in the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: Pie in the in a Face, Tree Poetry | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

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