Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just Throw a Chestnut. Progressive moderns will cast a cold eye on a man who moons for the time when a Dodge car ("if your family happened to own a Dodge") was the best there was, who recalls the wonderful sensation of running smack into wet sheets hanging on a backyard line ("Do that with an electric drier!"), and well remembers that one important use for a phonograph was to see how far the turntable could throw a horse chestnut. Smith knows he does not have a chance to prevail in the golden age of the child psychologist...
Consistently, the varsity has gone into its meets underdogs, only to come up with some clutch performance or two to smack down all obstreperous pretenders to the Heptagonal title...
...spring two more traps-the screen erupted into a chaos of snaps, pings and pongs. The mousetraps were the brightest touch in a lucid, hour-long primer, mostly in cartoons, tracing the story of atomic energy from Democritus to Rickover. The title ominously suggested that the show might smack more of Pluto than plutonium, but apart from small blemishes, e.g., giving a Russian accent to the villainous genie in the illustrative fable of the genie-in-the-vessel, the lesson was straightforward, cleverly taught and free of the cuteness with which some TV educators have patronized the mass audience...
...Discounter Gattegno,who grossed about $1,500,000 last year, plans to open a new American-style supermarket this spring with three floors of food, appliances and clothing, smack in the heart of the poor people's Paris near Gare St.-Lazare. Its name: Chez Monsieur 20%. Says he: "I will make new enemies among French retailers. But what interests me are the customers. They are my friends...
...Rose Tattoo. Anna Magnani, in her Oscar-winning role, serves up Tennessee Williams' comitragedy as a wonderful pizza-pie farce−and the spectator gets it smack in the eye (TIME...