Word: pungently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot, The Dividing Stream adds up to little more than an emotional tempest in a cracked teacup. Atmospherically, English Novelist Francis King, 28, does better. In dozens of pungent little Florentine sketches, ranging from cynical policemen to bent-double washerwomen, he evokes the passion and poverty of the people. Most memorable: two scrubby street urchins who think and move with an artless, pagan ease which suggests that the good life, and not a twisted packet of "problems," is man's rightful heritage...
Oliver Twist is long (1 hr. 45 min.) and rich enough to spare the cuts. Directed by David Lean and produced by Ronald Neame, the British team responsible for 1947's superb Great Expectations, the movie recreates the novel's pungent brew of harshly realistic detail, extravagant melodrama, sordid depravity and sentimental warmth. Between the dreary, bare-brick expanse of the parish workhouse where Oliver begins life as an orphan and the elegant Brownlow mansion where he finally takes his rightful place, the settings and costumes summon up all but the smells of Britain's lower depths...
...almost two centuries Arthur Guinness Son & Co., Ltd. has stood on the banks of Dublin's River Liffey and brewed a dark and pungent beer. It is known the world over as Guinness, and it is Ireland's national drink in a country where the average beer consumption is 100 pints a year per person. Therefore, Guinness has been little advertised in Ireland. But last week Dubliners were surprised to see the famous slogan-"Guinness Is Good for You"*-plastered on Dublin's buses. The ads, said Guinness & Co., were not for Irish eyes...
...taking form in the suburbs of Marseille (TIME, Feb. 2, 1948; June 12, 1950). They found plenty of fault with the 300-family apartment house. The quarters were cramped, the master bedrooms offered hardly any privacy from the living rooms, and windowless kitchens would make it hard for the pungent odors of French cooking to escape, or for French housewives to throw their garbage into the street. Last week, with the building nearing completion, vinophilic Frenchmen were talking about the most serious flaw of all. A Marseille daily, La France, pointed out with horror that, by building his Radiant City...
Although these are indistinguishable from regular steer meat, in appearance, they are prepared differently. The horse steak must not be grilled in the oven. It requires, instead, fast cooking over the hot flame of an open griddle. Chef Charles Rannou explains that this method of preparation insures tenderness and pungent flavor...