Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sexual satisfactions, none of which is now news to any of us, and may for once, please God, be considered boring to other people. I am tired of love and love and love. And when I see a play like Suddenly, Last Summer or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, I recognize that its chief appeal to those of us in the audience who are not homosexuals is that it offers a touch of 'rebellion' or 'depravity' . . . The philistines at the play used to be moral; now they demand sensationalism at any price...
...tin can full of metal shavings. See THE HEMISPHERE, Life Begins...
...shine forth at the Automart. A 1925 T-model Ford is price-tagged at $500; beside it stands a 1930 Dodge at $875; next comes a 1936 British Lagonda for $2,000. If a prospect looks under an ancient hood, he may find a tin can packed with metal shavings in place of an air cleaner; salesmen rush up with warnings not to touch engines for fear of disturbing the precarious equilibrium developed over years of makeshift repairs...
...supporters, merely represents a part of the networks' long lobbying against pay TV. Pay proponents have complained to the FCC that the networks have editorialized against them on the air, formulated a phony "grass roots" campaign to impress Congressmen, taunted kids with the prediction that Rin Tin Tin would disappear if pay TV were authorized...
Biggest and best exhibit was called simply Allegory. It featured an umbrella, and a bar mirror to which had been affixed a cascade of crumpled tin. Bar mirrors are a bore, as filled with eyes sometimes as tapioca and they have a blandly unpleasant way of catching the drinker unawares. The tin in Allegory made a witty tasteful substitute for reflection. Esthetically, the umbrella, too, was a brilliant stroke, its sharply precise form and cloth texture in telling contrast to the gleaming glass and crumpled metal