Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMERICA'S JUNIOR MISS PAGEANT (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A genuine slice of Americana, this beauty contest searches for "the ideal high school senior girl" and is broadcast in color with TV Teacher James Franciscus (Mr. Novak) as host...
...went back to telling duffers the difference between a mashie and a niblick. To keep himself amused, he tried "a little hocuspocus" on the practice tee, and club members started showing up to applaud such antics as hitting two balls simultaneously, one with a hook, the other with a slice. Aha! thought Hahn, and hit the road as a trick-shot artist. In the 15 years since, Hahn has visited 37 countries, traveled 1,500,000 miles. Today, his income from exhibitions, movies, TV, books and newspaper columns runs to $100,000 a year...
...call Roemer's film, then, a "slice of life" is entirely insufficient. His desire to make invented stories seem like real life, to create complete belief in a screen illusion, is unsophisticated by comparison with the symbolic exertions of some modern moviemakers. But Roemer did not arrive at this idea, or realize his current film, by proceeding from the obvious. "Ingenuous as I may seem," he said last week, "I am not ingenuous...
...pool. So desperate are West Coast oil companies for local crude that the bids, which were expected to offer 90% of net profits as royalty, averaged out to 96.25% on the six sections of the field. Over the next 35 years Long Beach and California will slice up $1.4 billion...
...Picker's play "The House on Tomorrow Street" is a delicate slice of crummy modern life. Miss Picker is really talented: she succeeds in capturing a lower class tawdriness without making it either tragic or sentimental...