Word: spicing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quality, the show is by no means up to the production. But it is surefire popular stuff, filled with surefire popular stuffing. Hammerstein & Logan have contrived a shrewd mixture of tear-jerking and rib-tickling, of sugar & spice and everything twice. Their musical play is far superior to the usual libretto nonsense; it is quite the equal, in fact, of the usual movie yarn. To all those for whom the plot's the thing, for whom heartbeats are more important than dance steps, South Pacific will seem-as it may well be-a perfect union of film and footlights...
Only the Livestock. Now being shown in Latin America and Australia and still going strong in the U.S., Mom and Dad is a knowing mixture of syrup, spice and corn. It blends scenes of childbirth, a Caesarean operation and the ravages of venereal disease into a tear-squeezing fable about a high-school girl who "got into trouble" because her parents kept her in ignorance. (Catch lines: "It Happens Somewhere Every Night," "Millions Learned the Hard Way, But You Can See the Facts...
...reappeared, and after several uncomfortable roles as farmer, professor, and sundry other sincere people, Edward G. Robinson has joyfully hoped into the gangster's shell to be Johnny Rocco, yah, Johnny Rocco, King of the Underworld. Throw in Humphrey Bogart and a fast moving plot, season with Lionel Barrymore, spice with Lauren Bacall and you have Key Largo, the best gangster show since High Sierra...
...Zuider Zee was face to face with a warning. Once one of the country's great trading centers, Hoorn's crabbed brown houses now totter over narrow, idle streets. On the silent waterfront stands the old East India warehouse, once filled with the sharp scents of the spice trade. Hoorn had been made useless when the North Sea Canal was cut to Amsterdam in 1876. From the town square, an imposing statue looks down at the idle harbor. It is Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Holland's great governor of the East Indies, who had pushed into Java...
...voyages of Columbus had a very different effect. Men discovered, to their great annoyance, that Columbus' "spice island" was a vast continent which shut them off from the rich Indies; and they tried again & again to by-pass America and Russia by finding some northwest or northeast passage. Warned that he would perish in the Arctic, Elizabethan Robert Thorne replied brusquely: "There is no land unhabitable, nor sea innavigable." So sure were these hardy Elizabethans of reaching their goal that they sheathed their cockleshell ships with lead, to protect the timbers from the worms of India...