Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wages, and the sight of luxury in its midst. Trying to call off a mob from burning a Greek church, a Turkish woman lawyer, Surreya Agaoglu, shouted from her balcony that the marauders were endangering their own homes. "What have we to lose but a blanket and a pot?" came a harridan's screech from the mob. "You wait in your fine home. Your turn will come!" By then it was poor against rich...
...should be young, and supported by dogged energy rather than a bubbling gaiety. In mid-film, Jack Lemmon adds some bracing laughter to the show with a slapstick attempted seduction of Betty Garrett. In this scene, it is as if someone put a jolt of fine brandy into a pot of Pablum. But once Lemmon is gone, Eileen grinds on with its predictable succession of songs and dances...
Experimenting on live giraffes was more fun, and harder. Dr. Goetz's original idea was to have an archer pot giraffes with arrows tipped with paralyzing curare, but the giraffes were too skittish, and the arrows did not hit them hard enough to penetrate their inch-thick hides. So Dr. Goetz spiked rifle bullets with curare mixed with powdered sugar, and shot them into a giraffe's hindquarters. In 45 minutes the muscles were paralyzed. Then Dr. Goetz and his safari mates hobbled the giraffe's legs, put a blindfold over its eyes, and erected around...
...Heads. The lavish display of pot-latching carried over even into the religious ceremonies. Indian artists were called on to outdo themselves in carving masks, staffs and rattles. Each symbol and convention had its meaning. The double-profiled portrayals of totem gods were apparently adapted from images first painted on both sides of the prow of a war canoe. Totem gods like Killer Whale were sometimes pictured with their entrails revealed to show lesser animals which they had swallowed. Even the massive totem poles were meant as seriously as medieval coats of arms to display family crests and famous ancestors...
Stick a Foot in the Pot-Open throttle wide...