Word: tins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somehow found their children easier to get along with -perhaps because they had a sense of sharing a common crisis. Children seemed comforting, or at least cheering. Hollywood fostered Jackie Cooper, Frankie Darro, Mickey Rooney, Our Gang and the apotheosis of innocence, Shirley Temple. "I class myself with Rin-Tin-Tin," she later said, referring to such films as Bright Eyes and Curly Top. "At the end of the Depression, people were perhaps looking for something to cheer them up. They fell in love with a dog and a little girl-it won't happen again...
...Americans, British politicians and the Fleet Street press lords. "I'm a naughty tease," he explained. "I like to attack rich and powerful people." The London Observer mused that he was "dangerously over-inflated with hot air, bursting with ruderies, strained around the seams, self-sealing against the tin-tacks of opposition and criticism...
...piece of Americana-sort of a Portrait of Whistler's Mother as a Young Girl in Indian Territory. And he has most vividly produced a true mock western: one in which blood flows with the same impact as real tomato soup suddenly gushing out of an Andy Warhol tin...
...made them: over an open fire wrapped around a green stick, on a flat rock under an old auto fender, on a piep an tilted in front of a fire, under an old dishpan on top of a range, on a piece of foil under a piece of corrugated-tin roof, and the product was eaten with relish by all at hand...
remember about the loft? There had been an old movie poster of Rin Tin Tin on the wall, and he and his friends had been drinking Miller High Life beer. McGee asked if a Jack Harris had been involved. The name was completely imaginary, yet soon the subject slipped it into the conversation, confessing that Harris had really been the ringleader, and was a big man who 'looks like he could kill...