Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...millions who follow his exclamatory career on the front pages and the late shows, he gleefully presents himself as the meanest man in town-as "the Abominable Showman," a bold, bad Broadway producer with a rubber leer, a big black Groucho Marx mustache and a tongue that can tirelessly slice baloney and burble ballyhoo about such Merrick productions as Look Back in Anger, La Plume de Ma Tante, Gypsy and Luther. To publicize his shows, Merrick with truly hippopotamic cheek has sent sandwich-board men into the streets of Manhattan encased in portable placarded pissoirs; persuaded President Johnson to accept...
...necessarily incomplete information is still adequate, several schools have begun to turn their curriculums inside out. Instead of teaching a few subjects intensively in unwieldy, time-consuming blocks (anatomy all through the first year, pathology in the second), Western Reserve University began as long ago as 1952 to slice the four standard years into three functional phases. It also took the revolutionary step of assigning each freshman student to a pregnant patient, to serve as assistant to all the doctors who care for her and her family for the next two years...
...swipe of the racket can slice an opponent's cheek like a scythe; just getting in the way of the ball produces a rainbow-hued bruise that lasts for weeks. The dangers can be exaggerated; yet the strain, particularly on older players, can be considerable in a fast-moving game. "We had a siege of three heart attacks in one week not long ago," says Manhattan Adman Bob Lehman, an official of New York's Metropolitan Squash Racquets Association. "But you hardly ever see players drop dead on the court," he adds wryly. "Usually they do it after...
...Truffaut film gave us an objective picture of a young boy alienated from society at age 12, without any attempt to ascribe cause or blame. The Four Hundred Blows presents an isolated slice of its hero's life, and the film comes to no set conclusions, contrary to the then-conventional practice of "packaging" the plot. Instead, Truffaut develops the poetic possibilities of his subject, calling on a wide range of visual metaphors to convey his subjective message. In addition, the scene in which the hero is interviewed by a prison psychologist introduced the so-called cinema-verite technique...
...Slices of Life. Not all religious television, of course, displays a richness of imagination. Some of the programs produced by the churches' own television divisions and syndicated to stations individually are almost as cliche-ridden as a Hollywood comedy series. The Missouri Synod's This Is the Life, which is shown on 375 stations, frequently features pious family dramas with all too obvious moral points. One recent slice of Life told of a critically ill boy who asked to see his father. The plot focused on the search for the man, a stevedore who had walked...