Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Papa's Delicate Condition. "Vanilla." That's what Jackie Gleason calls his latest picture and that's what it basically is: sweet enough for the kids, plain enough for the grown folks-something the whole family can swallow without collywobbles. The concoction is inexpensive and attractive, and it should leave most customers ready (if not exactly roaring) for a second helping...
...Best Actress: Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker), Lee Remick (Wine and Roses), Geraldine Page (Sweet Bird of Youth), Katharine Hepburn (Long Day's Journey into Night), and Bette Davis (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?). Davis has won twice before and is thus in a position to become the first person ever to do it a third time. She has been nominated a record ten times...
...tired old town in the '30s. "Grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft tea-cakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. People moved slowly. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with. But it was a time of vague optimism. Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself...
...storage room no longer has to be sealed. The food-preserving atmosphere is constantly replaced. As a result. Tectrol-treated apples can be kept fresh as long as a year. Apricots, which once could be kept no longer than ten days, now last for up to ten weeks. Sweet-cherry life can be lengthened from seven days to six weeks; pears that once spoiled after twelve weeks of refrigeration can now stand an extra month of storage...
...shouts the announcer triumphantly, "voici Les Bluebells!" Out from the wings prance 17 abundantly healthy girls, strenuously smiling. They are big, leggy and bosomy. They can do a cakewalk; they can swivel through a Charleston to the music of Yes, We Have No Bananas and Ain't She Sweet? They can shimmy, shake and kick their legs in perfect unison. Then they race into the wings to ruffles, flourishes and fanfares in the orchestra and table thumping applause from the audience in the world-famed Lido of Paris...