Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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World's Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson signed a contract that promised to put him in show business. Next month, Robinson announced, he will make his debut as tap dancer and master of ceremonies at a Manhattan nightclub...
Friday. "Devoted to harvest work, weeding of sugar-beet fields and the like...
...after she asked two female tenants to move, they: 1) packed glue into a lamp socket, 2) rubbed cold cream into the sofa cushions, 3) smeared textile bleach on the sofa, 4) glued an oriental throw rug onto the carpet, 5) poured a mixture of syrup, salt, coffee and sugar over the living room...
Fallen Creatures. Marie and Gilles are conventional sugar-sticks, but Agathe. straining for a love she cannot possess and Nicolas, moving from his false idolatry of Gilles to a love of God, are remarkably impressive figures, gargoyles of suffering and striving. In telling their story, Novelist Mauriac shows himself still deeply preoccupied with the fevers of the human blood; at 66, he does not pretend to a resignation he apparently cannot feel...
...name of Poindexter. Physically unimpressive and psychologically timorous, Poindexter is assaulted by teenagers, bullied by newsboys, insulted by waitresses, and refused a loan by snooty bank clerks. But suddenly the god Jupiter comes down and offers Poindexter some advice. "Be wisely selfish," says Jupiter, "catch your flies with sugar." So Poindexter suppresses his natural reactions to various people, fixes a blank grin of confidence on his face, and composes adulatory remarks to smother everyone with. He gets what he wants from others by feigning interest in their problems and remaining inwardly aloof and calculating. The film teaches that in this...