Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mauldin is leaving mainly for money. His salary was $20,000, and he shared his syndication take with the paper. Mauldin's slice: 25% of the net, or about $10,000 a year. On the Sun-Times he will get $25,000 and all the syndication royalties, which might go to $25,000 a year, since the Sun-Times plans to boost his papers from...
...faithfully did Producer Landau and Director Sidney Lumet (Twelve Angry Men) adhere to the original that only eleven pages of the text were cut to get the film down to three hours. The play, a long slice of O'Neill self-fictionalized autobiography, deals with the bedeviled Tyrone family-the mother a pitiful dope addict, the father a stingy sot, the younger son a tuberculosis victim, and the elder son a cynical lush...
...Berlioz and Brahms." Today, a segment of the public has also settled, quite happily, for De Koven. A self-appointed authority of magnificent self-assurance ("All FM has improved because of my blustering, bullying dogmatism"), he has built a radio following so loyal that it pays for a large slice of his air time out of its own pocket...
...candy machines and lollipops, and he portrays them so lushly that the viewer's mouth is bound to water. Last week, as his first Manhattan show closed at the Allan Stone Gallery, there was ample evidence that he had a number of connoisseurs drooling as sympathetically over the slice-of-cake school of art as literary critics once took to the slice-of-life. Among those who snapped up Thiebaud's canvases: Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum. Collector James Thrall Soby, Architect Philip Johnson...
...eared formula for Irish comic fiction: to one seedy slice of life from an impoverished Irish boyhood add one outrageous old character who swears a blue streak, acts like a freak, and is lovable as all get out. Stir in plenty of Irish whisky, a peck of troubles, assorted downtrodden womenfolk, a hard-drinking priest, plenty of disputatious talk about the church...