Word: spicing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BIRDS, THE BEES AND THE ITALIANS. Adultery-Italian style, by Divorce-Italian Style Director Pietro Germi. Virna Lisi supplies the sugar and spice. Really quite nice...
...splendors led the Arabs to call it "One Half of the World." The night sky flares bright in the oilfields of Abadan, where the Zoroastrians built fire temples over ducts of natural gas. A railroad is stretching out across the treacherous Dasht-i-Kavir Desert, once traversed only by spice caravans from the Orient. A giant dam now irrigates the rolling grainlands below Shush, the ancient capital of the Elamites, where Daniel had his second vision...
...that of an after-dinner mint." Like peanuts, one handful leads to another. "After a box of it," said one woman, "my throat gets kind of sticky, so I go and get a big glass of ice water. Then I get a powerful desire for more." Some enthusiasts spice laundry starch with salt and pepper; others munch it with ice chips. A few housewives wash it down with Coke...
...bland as a potato, sliced it into thin bits-and made it as hard to resist as potato chips. Two spoiled young honeymooners (Robert Redford and Jane Fonda) settle into a six-flight walkup in Greenwich Village. In Ogden Nash's phrase, "a little incompatibility is the spice of life, particularly if he has income and she is pattable." And so it proves in Barefoot. The puny pad she has chosen has no heat, no bathtub, and a hole in the skylight...
...Dragnet or low-IQ sitch-coms on the order of Beverly Hillbillies and Bewitched. The only steady programs that offer the hope of entertainment are Old Standbys Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Ed Sullivan and Dean Martin-and movies, for which TV can claim no creative proprietorship. The only spice in the schedules are the sporadic specials, many of which are first class; to their credit, the networks next season will produce 300 such programs, including two Truman Capote adaptations on ABC, and at least four newly commissioned works on CBS Playhouse. About half of the specials will be documentaries-among...