Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canned laughter rings, too often like hollow mockery, through virtually every filmed comedy show on TV. It is a hoary part of show business, at least as old as Nero who, in his ventures as an actor, packed his houses with as many as 5,000 soldiers under strict orders to appreciate him. The French refined it with the institution of the claque, with such specialists as rieurs* or laughers. In the heyday of U.S. radio, comics often helped a laugh along by kicking the announcer or pummeling the guest star to get studio audiences laughing at what unseeing hearers...
...Code which the industry has recently formulated under Board Chairman Eric Johnson was promulgated under these pressures and it makes a sharp departure from the strict provisions of the old Code. The new Code now defines as its criterion "the limits of good taste." That the industry should so repudiate its old standards on the grounds of the success of the banned films indicates a sharp break with the several pressure groups who largely formulated the old Code. The industry has realized that the American public is not so puerile as the Legion of Decency or the American Legion would...
What to do? Dermatologist MacKenna stoutly holds that each individual case presents its own problems, but he slashes away a lot of old-fashioned injunctions. It is no use, he says, to impose such a strict diet that the victim feels forever hungry and deprived, or to prescribe special face lotions plus shampoos for the unproved relationship between dandruff and acne. Some cases can be cured, says Dr. MacKenna, by moderate restriction of sugars and starches, elimination of chocolate and cocoa in any form, from the diet, and nightly application of a paste containing 6% sulphur, 6% resorcin...
...Bernardino filled the bill. Born to the noble Sienese family of the Albizeschi in 1380, he was ordained a priest in the Franciscans of the Strict Observance at 24, spent 30 years inspiring crowds all over Italy with his oratory. His dynamic and holy hard sell frequently persuaded gamblers to throw away their dice and tear up their cards. Famed for his preaching, St. Bernardino nevertheless re fused three bishoprics; such modesty, one Vatican monsignor slyly suggested last week, especially recommended him to advertisers. Another fact might recommend him even more warmly. Once, when a playing-card maker complained that...
Canapés & Cholesterol. Whenever Groover found cholesterol danger signs in a patient, he put him on strict diet and exercise. Of nearly 100 men in this category, 75% were thus restored to normal cholesterol levels. But some of the men developed high levels of cholesterol and lipoproteins (fat compounds containing cholesterol) even under the strict regimen...