Word: spam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young and the Damned. A savage juvenile delinquency drama with a largely amateur cast, filmed in Mexico by Spam's Luis Buñuel (TIME, March...
...Damned (Oscar Dancigers; Mayer-Kingsley) are a gang of savage slum children running wild on the outskirts of Mexico City, where they steal, beat up a blind beggar, attack a legless man and commit murder. Filmed in Mexico as Los Olvidados (The Forgotten Ones), the picture was directed by Spam's onetime surrealist Moviemaker Luis Bunuel and photographed by Mexico's famed Cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa. The Young and the Damned is in the raw, realistic tradition of such classic juvenile-delinquency movies as the Russian Road to Life, the American Wild Boys of the Road and the Italian...
Married. George A. Hormel II, 23, heir to the Hormel meat-packing fortune ("Spam") founded by his grandfather; and Leslie Caron, 18, French-born ballet dancer (An American in Paris); in Las Vegas...
...Ibsen & Spam. Like the rest of the series, The Later Ego (Egos 8 & 9) is larded with letters from friends and fans, old reviews, quotations from favorite authors. But these are only walk-on bits. The leading "character" is still James Agate, and the role he plays with the most zest is Victorian-conservative-at-bay. From modern art to modern man, he was convinced that the 20th Century was a dubious conspiracy against good sense, good taste, and good James Agate. Wearing the chips on his shoulders like epaulets, he waged a steady duel with his time...
...Novelist Hilton's hands, this plot goes from ham to Spam. Had he shown but a spark of Carey's fondness for drama, Morning Journey might have turned into as much of a grassfire as Mr. Chips and Lost Horizon. As it is, readers can only look on with morbid fascination while Novelist Hilton earnestly lights the fires of one dramatic episode after another and then, swiftly dropping his matches and snatching up a fire bucket, pours suffocating streams of cold water over the struggling flames...