Word: spice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burlesque Boss Harold Minsky has no prejudice against home-grown talent, but at Las Vegas' Dunes Hotel the foreign-born element in his chorus line is the spice of the show ("People enjoy talking to them"). So last month Minsky* took off on a recruiting trip to Europe, returned last week with a report that was part showbusinesslike, part sociological. Said he: "Europe is one big striptease. Hamburg looks like 52nd Street in the wild days; Paris is one strip joint after another...
...drama, as so many know by now, takes place in a garret above an Amsterdam spice factory, where a group of Jewish refugees live in secret, under constant threat of discovery by the Nazis. Stevens' attempts to escape his spatial limitations, through open window spots and photographic tricks, are, on the whole, successful...
Except for dishes like hamburgers or french fries, most meals are bleakly bare. Catsup can be obtained if requested, ceremoniously parcelled out in paper thimbles. But the reassuring jars of the tomato spice, which held enough to hide the most unattractive mystery meat, are gone...
Nabokov's intellectual luggage included fragments of a book that later, published in Paris in 1955, became a must item of the contraband spice trade in which Henry Miller's Tropics have bulked large. Now. after several years of subterranean fame, Lolita has finally found a U.S. publisher. Following Nabokov's earlier excellent, offbeat novels (including Pnin, TIME, March 18, 1957), Lolita should give his name its true dimensions and expose a wider U.S. public to his special gift-which is to deal with life as if it were a thing created by a mad poet...
Something new, everyone take note: potato stuffing coupled with hamburger patties. Potato . . . guaranteed to appear throughout the week . . . mashed, fried, Frenched, hashed, boiled, baked, stuffed. Variety is spice...