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Word: souped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the start, Warhol worked to a chorus of cheers and jeers. Campbell soup-can silk screens ladeled him with fame, becoming artistic beacons gazing at life's banal objects with a wan, reportorial eye. Turning to moviemaking, he lifted the underground cinema's popularity to new heights while sinking the contents to sadistic depths. His bent is parody and plotlessness, and he has a whimsical flair. Sleep shows six hours of just that; Empire, eight hours long, stars the Empire State Building. ****-the title spoofs film ratings-originally lasted all day and night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Felled by Scum | 6/14/1968 | See Source »

CLEOPATRA GOES SLEDDING, by André Hodeir, illustrated by Tomi Ungerer (Grove Press; $3.95). Two wicked crocodiles try to lure a turtle into a boiling soup pot, but the turtle, aided by a mischievous monkey, wins out, and the disappointed crocodiles have to settle for mock-turtle soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 31, 1968 | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...changed. What's wrong with that? That's fine, They earned the privilege. Give them all their due, But-weren't they still the least bit parvenu, The least bit not quite Mayflower, F.F.V., A trace this side of true gentility, A soupfon, a sous-soupçon, just below The absolute apogee of comme il faut? They did improve the breed, they kept alive The sport of kings, so that, in 1905, The naming of this racecourse set the crown Of laurel on their virtuous renown, As beautiful, as elegant a setting As one could ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: BELMONT | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...romaine, watercress and little mandarins. No dieter herself ("If one eats right, one doesn't have to"), she made herself an expert in low-calorie meals. And when Weight Watchers magazine asked for a few samples, she cheerfully agreed. As recipes, they were ordinary. Her "Black Mushroom Soup" is simply five cups of bouillon, 1 Ib. of sliced mushrooms with coarse pepper seasoning simmered for 30 minutes, after which the mushrooms are strained out and the soup is served sprinkled with parsley. But the magazine's cover carried the headline: JACKIE KENNEDY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Services: Over the Courses with Annemarie | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...then, at times, Updike's virtuosity leads to excess that smothers meaning and clogs the reader's senses as when he writes of "the shallow amber depths where the lemon slice like an embryo swam." That is a bowl of soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Authors: View from the Catacombs | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

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