Word: spicing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many possible uses for a motion picture camera, the least frequent is the making of interesting movies. Not that there aren't plenty of good movies, but almost none of them incorporate the peculiarities of cameras into their efforts, spice of Life, however, derives much charm and many angles from imaginative trick photography...
...then Ed Sullivan decided to give broadcasting a TV salute on his Toast of the Town. However, NBC, still pursuing the quarrel it claims CBS started, refused to let its brightest stars attend. Dependable Jack Benny ran off one of his faultless comic monologues; George Burns added some needed spice; and H. V. Kaltenborn did a funny job of imitating Harry S. Truman imitating H. V. Kaltenborn after the 1948 election...
Although his stories are set in Ireland, and his characters say "Begor" rather than "Good Lord," O'Conner's nationalism merely adds spice to the staple of universality that marks his characters and situations. Money and sex, religion and childhood are the problems with which he confronts his people. And they either solve them or they do not, depending on their personality which has been presented more or less explicitly. For example, in a story called Masculine Protest, a boy runs away from home after a quarrel with his mother and returns the next day. Yet he has solved...
...Spice of Life. In Emeryville, Calif., Patrolman Leo Neuberger, rebuked for riding in his patrol car 20 blocks away from his beat, explained to superiors: "This town is so small you get tired going around in circles...
...whatever she did, she remained well-bred." Russian to the core, Isabelle was prone to cries and lamentations which she often expressed in admirable prose. She explained: "Why do I prefer nomads to villagers, beggars to rich people? Aie yie yie! for me, unhappiness is a sort of spice ... I love the knout!" To Author Blanch, Isabelle Eberhardt represents the "blessed annihilation of self," the woman "free of all the little deadly fetters of everyday life...