Word: slippers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combining familiar objects in unfamiliar ways until they become surreal and emetic. In Gaston he describes a rat: "It looked rather like a great hairy carrot; it crouched there as all rats do, as soon as dusk has fallen and there is nothing to distinguish them from a lost slipper or a forgotten rag except that long worm lying along the floor . . . that suspicious-looking shoelace that will suddenly, swift as a whipped top, grow tense with terror." Gaston of the title is a black-spotted rat, as big as a rabbit, and he is stalked through the sewers...
Gaby (M-G-M). Hollywood casts Leslie Caron as if she were a broken leg. In Lili, in The Glass Slipper, and now in her latest picture, she has been rigidly restricted to the role of 1) a hot-eyed French girl who is also 2) a pathetic little orphan, 3) a highly trained ballet dancer, at least in her dreams, and 4) dreamily in love with an actor who looks as pretty as a cupcake (Mel Ferrer, Michael Wilding and now John Kerr...
Activities include such opportunities for the slipper-and-lounging-jacket set as a Wine Sippers' Society and a Cheese Tasters' Guild...
Dropped because they are outmoded are another 500 items. Mostly herbals, these included cypripedium (lady's slipper), once used as a sedative in hysteria and neuralgia; diabetes weed, and corn smut (derived from a fungus), which stimulated uterine contractions in childbirth. Carried over from edition to edition, of course: quack grass...
...chirped: "He certainly went all ham then . . . Besides, he's started to pamper me, and I've never been pampered in my whole life." (Kay once charged that her former husband, the bibulous sugar heir, "Daddy" Adolph B. Spreckels II, beat her with a jeweled slipper.) Someone reminded Kay that she will soon be deluged with baby showers. Said she: "Oh, dear! I've just finished thanking everyone for our wedding presents...