Word: tastee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: Your picture coverage of the bloody fighting in South Vietnamese cities was shocking and sickening [Feb. 9]. There are those who will cry "bad taste" or "obscene." The fact is that war is obscene, but unrealistic complacency about it is as dangerous as it is uninformed. Hopefully, candid reporting...
Died. Elliott B. Macrae, 67, president since 1944 of E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publishers; of cancer; in New Canaan, Conn. Widely traveled and equally cosmopolitan in taste, Macrae over the years printed something for practically everyone; he sprang Mickey Spillane on the world (seven biggest sellers: 34.6 million copies...
Director Finney sets the correct tone for his fable of reality once removed. But charging the atmosphere with a Pinteresque amalgam of the incongruous and the comic is not enough. The film rests on a script by Shelagh Delaney (A Taste of Honey) that settles for cringingly arch character names...
The Proposition's routines are obviously developed in a similar, group atmosphere. But because the cast faces four different outside audiences each week, there is a chance to spring new concepts, and learn through repeated experiment just what will go over (in terms of laughs, not good taste--good taste...
Shriveled Taste Buds. By its own estimates, the bottled-water industry now sells $65 million a year worth of purified water, coolers, cups and allied equipment. About 40% of that business is concentrated in arid Southern California, partly because of the climate and partly because much of the local tap...