Word: spiced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hair pressing pants walking dogs eating dinner reading books making love laughing crying explaining threatening proving sigh for it all because sigh is the bass note. Sigh for religion and sigh for the irreligious sigh for the relevant, sigh for death and life and sigh for a lack of spice and sigh for a lack of taste and sigh for too much ketchup and sigh for no more cigarettes sigh for biology sigh for bankers sigh for the good old days sigh for the future sigh with dispatch easily naturally inconspicuously oafishily amorally bitterly without emotion sigh on a diet...
...required three quarters at their regular salaries. To date, so many have chosen to work all year at extra pay that there has been no need to hire additional staffers. Teacher Jeanine Lewis of Grady High School says the new courses "keep me from being stalemated, and they add spice for the students, too." Mrs. Lewis believes the new system will also help dropouts ease back into school during the more casual summer quarter, when teachers can take more time to work with them...
...reporters to plan their day; all they have to do is check the presidential schedule. They know when to pack their travel bags, when to expect a weekend at home. Gone are Johnson's impromptu press conferences and his sudden take-offs for Texas. Gone also is the spice of the unexpected, the spontaneity of a Kennedy quip or a Johnson sermonette. There is less news out of the Nixon White House, but when it comes, it is more likely to be substantive, less apt to be intriguing...
Still, the TV magazines have brought a welcome sense of whimsy to the unblinking big eye. In a piece on Joe Namath, CBS rang a cash register every time he passed the football. To spice up an interview with Karl Hess, Barry Goldwater's onetime speechwriter, First Tuesday flashed on stills of Robert Taft and Henry David Thoreau every time their names were mentioned. The NBC sound men played Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart during an interview with Philip Blaiberg and spun off Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture while a French count's hunting party slaughtered...
...trade is grafting psychological aberrations onto standard and somewhat sleazy melodrama. In La Prisonnière, his first film in eight years, Clouzot once again mixes an ordinary story with kinky characters, a soupçon of violence, and a touch of Krafft-Ebing just to add some spice. The result is pat, predictable and more than a little distasteful...