Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loved the shot of Central Park, however ... I had to gape with horror at the enormous waste being perpetrated on our city in the name of beauty. Smack down the center of one of the most peopled, congested, dirtiest islands in the world is this huge chunk of valuable realty making no contribution to the city at all - 51 blocks long, several city blocks wide, just sitting majestic and very idle while the city is busting at its seams looking for solutions to its space problems . . . What an ideal spot for a huge parking...
Others found the going even worse. Two French teams, starting from Palermo, ran smack into an avalanche that piled six-foot snow drifts on the narrow Alpine roads. Drivers starting from Oslo and Stockholm shuddered through below-zero cold; inch-thick ice formed on windshields. British drivers leaving Glasgow fought snow, fog and black ice on roads that slowed them down so much that an unhappy few missed the boat from Dover to Boulogne...
...Video Theater. Host James Mason looks pained about it, but pluckily mentions Lux; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Adolphe Menjou smack their lips respectively over Rheingold and Schaefer beers; Jon Hall goes into ecstasies over Jay's potato chips; and Loretta Young apparently keeps a box of Tide on her grand piano. There are only a few holdouts, notably Sid Caesar who sticks strictly to his funny business...
...chronicling the family affairs of the Currys-the amours of a lively young oaf, the wrangles and tangles over getting Lizzie hitched-or when Lizzie herself mimics the wiles of the gals who know how to lasso men, the play has a brisk air and an engagingly humorous smack. And as Lizzie, Geraldine Page plays with charm and verve, and exhibits an unexpected comic gusto. It is popular stuff, and deservedly popular...
...year-old Tony Curtis, who plays the broadsword, mans the barbican and generally acrobattles with such enthusiasm that no one should be disturbed by a few Curtis crudities. Example: when he kisses a girl-in this case Janet Leigh, who is Mrs. Curtis in private life-a great wet smack is heard all the way to the back of the theater...