Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Home Sweet...
...inspired the painting's composition. He will borrow an economist's catch phrase, The Production of Waste, to title a 1963 oil showing a trio of allegorical figures chopped up like news photos of poverty, stupidity and avarice. "My pictures are a compendium of disparate imagery," he says, "mixing sweet subjects with sour ones...
...Lawrence travels 25% of the time, works six ten-hour days a week at Continental, personally checks every day by interoffice phone on each of the airline's ten divisions. He will be happy to get back to Texas. He and his wife Jimmi met at a Texas sweet potato festival where she was a princess, have three Texas-born children, including an eleven-year-old boy whose name is State Rights...
...American Tobacco Co.'s querulous George Washington Hill made his company famous with a classic slogan that urged women to "reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet." Whichever way they reach from now on, American Tobacco stands to benefit. Last week the nation's second largest cigarette maker (after R.J. Reynolds) moved to acquire Chicago's Consolidated Foods Corp. Consolidated is a vast (1964 sales: $634 million) packer, distributor and retailer of foods whose sweets range from Sara Lee bakery products to Union Sugar and Shasta beverages...
Author Humphrey is a man of supple mind and ingenious fancy; he is also the unobtrusive master of a wide-eyed, self-deprecatory style that again and again sweet-talks the reader, step by reasonable step, right to the brink of the preposterous^and then tumbles him into laughter. He does it with a loving touch that leaves no bitter aftertaste: the Ordways come up smiling...