Word: spooning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was a neat trick. How did he do it? Did he use a spoon or a knife, or something in between...
Kiss & Marry. When the traveling theater first came to the Bessarabian village of Holeneshti, it stirred a sensation. The little Jewish community had never seen a live actor. What was the theater? Did you eat it with a fork or a spoon? Did you sprinkle sugar or salt over it? Soon they found out. The wandering players had a wide repertory, all the way from Isabelle, Tear My Skirt to Dora, or the Rich Beggar, by Shakespeare, Revised and Improved by Albert Shchupak, Producer and Director...
...still only 16 when, by threats and cajolery, she won her parents' reluctant permission to marry Eddie Neale, who was all of 21 and a confirmed narcotics addict. Their routine was to spend $25 for a half-spoon of heroin, enough to make ten or twelve individual shots. They sold the shots for $5 apiece. But, confesses Amy, "even that didn't pay for all the jolting we did after we got married. Eddie was spending around $40 a day sometimes just for the junk for us to jolt with...
...minor mystery to most U.S. males is the fact that housewives always seem to have room for another spoon or egg beater in their crowded kitchen cabinets. But Chicago's 57-year-old Arthur Keating solved the mystery long ago. As head of Ekco Products Co. and king of the U.S. kitchenware business, it is his job to make women want ever more household gimmicks. Keating estimates that nearly a third of existing gadgets disappear every year: they are lost in the garbage, carted away by children, or battered shapeless by amateur earthmovers in the backyard. Keating makes...
...first time she snorts powdered heroin she vomits. Soon enough she is warming capsules of Horse in a spoon over a burner, mainlining the drug directly into a vein. Each dose sends her into a nerveless Nirvana: "Nothing itself in a uniform of gold, and Nothing loomed bigger than Anything ever could hope to be." To get the nothing her dreams are made of, Diane takes to shoplifting, finally sinks to old-fashioned prostitution. At novel's end. Author Mandel feebly suggests that psychoanalysis may save...