Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uniform. These are the so-called quick-fix measures which we have invoked to improve the Western tactical position in Berlin and remind the Soviets that the city is not an open invitation to that variety of aggression which has been described as the salami, or one-slice-at-a-time, method...
...that permanent invalid of the American baking industry, the bun, they are, even so, mechanically consumed in sickening quantities every day. They cost anywhere from 15 cents to 40 cents. And every single one of them is accompanied, like a whale with its pilot fish, by a small, awkward slice of cucumber pickle. All very depressing...
...impressionism by Mary Cassatt, an angular Girl Wearing Bandanna by Yasuo Kuniyoshi. But even when the nude is at its most vigorous, its treatment varies dramatically from artist to artist. William Glackens' Nude with Apple is in standard studio pose-a composition of color rather than a slice of life. John Sloan, realist though he was, thought most painted nudes pornographic, concealed his in a kind of armor because "works of art are made of wood and bronze and oil paint, not flesh and blood...
Splendor in the Grass (Warner). Director Elia Kazan, who for about 20 years has exerted a powerful but often Freudulent influence on the art and ethos of the U.S. stage and screen, is a man who believes that every slice of life is a Wiener Schnitzel. The theory works pretty well with the plays of Tennessee Williams, which Kazan perennially directs, because most of Williams' characters are merely engaged in a morbid game of tag your id. It works less well with the plays of William Inge, which Kazan occasionally directs, because most of Inge's characters have...
Appearing as a subcommittee witness, U.S. Internal Revenue Commissioner Mortimer Caplin estimated that $25 billion in income goes unreported every year-and a healthy slice of the money is earned from gambling. Subcommittee Chairman John McClellan concluded that if all gambling income were reported, the U.S. Treasury would be at least $5 billion richer (enough to balance the budget). Professional Card and Dice Expert John Scarne raised those calls far higher; he guessed that illegal off-track betting alone totals $50 billion a year (in 1960 the legal handle at U.S. tracks was only $3.3 billion), and in addition payoffs...