Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with antibiotics). But there is also a choice of hors d'oeuvres dishes, television lamps and artificial eyelashes. The flamboyant old descriptions ("Astonishing Offer," "Biggest Bargain Ever," "The Best Cream Separator made in the World") have been toned down, and patent medicines virtually abolished. Instead of ads for rubber and celluloid collars and mustache cups, there are now lists of lipstick, perfume and hormone creams -plus 37 pages of foundation garments ("I dreamed I went shopping at Sears for more Maidenform bras"). Most expensive item: diamonds (up to $1,795) -on the cheaper rings, "magic reflector settings make diamonds...
...Wool blankets, plastic sheets and most synthetic fabrics should not be allowed near an anesthesia machine, the bureau said, because of the danger that they will generate static electricity and cause a spark. Cotton should be used instead. Doctors and nurses must not wear wool trousers, nylon gowns, or rubber-soled shoes. Tables, machines and stools should have non-insulating feet, to conduct static electricity to the floor...
Much of the credit belongs to Lucille, a redheaded, uninhibited comedienne who takes pratfalls and pie-throwings in her stride, manages to add an extra wriggle or a rubber-faced doubletake to each funny line. Cuban-born Desi Arnaz gets enough masculine authority into his role to keep Lucy from degenerating into a Dagwood and Blondie farce. Three writers turn out scripts that bring flashes of grown-up humor to such standard subjects as amateur theatricals and wedding anniversaries. Says Lucille: "We try to be an average married couple getting into unaverage situations...
Amory Hubbard tallied the eventual winning tally on the prettiest goal of the night (and the season), with the Crimson down a man' Grabbing the rubber at his own blue line, the wiry wingman skated down the boards, eluded Indian Irv Sherwood, and, although booked from behind, managed to poke the disk through goalie Dick McMahon's legs, ending up in the goal himself, on top of McMahon and the puck...
Sailor Beware suffers from a gross misjudgement on the part of producer Hal Wallis. In an effort to make the picture funny, he has sacrificed all pretense of plot to allow the rubber-faced Mr. Lewis every possible situation for the display of his various energetic talents. At different points Lewis plays a Hawaiian ethnic dancer, a professional prize fighter, a lover, a sailor and others too numerous to mention...