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...hard cash. In the case of the horse-opera, this lure is excitement, the old-fashioned kind of excitement. Generations of frustrated cowboys have tolerated the same ragged plots over an over again simply for the emotional release they get through seeing a guy riddled with blanks and squirting tomato juice all over the lot. When they don't get this gunplay, when the picture gets arty and wanders out of its realm, western fans feel cheated; they get angry and bored...

Author: By George G. Daniels, | Title: Four Faces West | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...anyone who has struggled over his own ham and tomato salad, the size and scope of operations in the main kitchen are appalling. Entering by the main receiving gate, you are at once confronted by rows of trucks piled high with sides of meat and sacks of potatoes. As you wander through the passageways, you see stainless steel cauldrons 'filled with soup stock; huge insulated cold storage rooms; and massive east-iron ranges sheltered under bulky smoke hoods...

Author: By E. P. H., | Title: Central Kitchen: all that meat and potatoes too | 10/5/1948 | See Source »

...slave all day trying to paint an apple that turns out more like a tomato? There is a much easier way to make pictures: just cut and paste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Scissors & Paste | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...inaugural remarks, Dean Bender reminded the Council of one of these projects. He pointed out that the political sound and fury of the election campaign is all but arrived, and that there will be political meetings, pamphleteer, and possibly a tossed tomato...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council: 1948 | 9/30/1948 | See Source »

...comparative prices, a meal of shrimps, wine, tomato and potato salad, more wine, steak and, of course, French fried potatoes and more wine, and cheese for dessert costs a dollar at any of the restaurants off the large boulevards. Movies range from a dime to a dollar, the opera four times a week can be enjoyed for thirty cents, the Folies start at sixty-five, and exhibitions for five run around a buck and a half each. These are computed at the legal rate of exchange of 3000 francs to the dollar...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Notes On Tourists, Students, Francs, and Politics | 9/28/1948 | See Source »

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