Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...declared that "everybody is here tonight." He was almost right. At ringside were Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stu Roosa and Edgar Mitchell, Senators Hubert Humphrey and John Tunney, Ed Sullivan, Andy Williams, Ethel Kennedy, Bullfighter El Cordobes, Frank Sinatra, Dick Cavett, Danny Kaye, Bill Cosby, David Frost, Michael Caine, Woody Allen, Burt Bacharach-to cite a few. Then there were the costumes, which ranged from brocaded tuxedos and sequined capes to tangerine jumpsuits and mink-trimmed robes. Salvador Dali had one look at the proceedings and pronounced them "surrealistic...
...Allen S. Weinreb was the only graduate student mentioned in that story. He was not available for comment last night...
...wrangle time in the literary jungle. First blood was drawn when the National Book Awards' fiction judges refused to list Erich Segal's bestseller Love Story. Poet Allen Ginsberg, one of the five poetry judges, made known his disgust with his fellow panelists' selection of Mona Van Duyn's To See, To Take by burning incense during the award announcements and castigating the choice as "ignominious, insensitive and mediocre." Miss Van Duyn riposted with a metaphor about a rest-room wall covered with dirty words along with a heart enclosing the names of lovers. "I notice...
...savored. Julie Harris has played Little Girl Lost so often that she can sleepwalk her way through the part, but she is too much of a trouper not to do it beautifully. Nancy Marchand is as flinty as the Maine coast. As a visiting fellow teacher, Rae Allen is a delightful vulgarian, and lard would not melt in her mouth. Top honors go to Estelle Parsons, caustically jovial, slapping her consonants with the back of her tongue, and looping about her housely chores while knocking back the gin and nibbling raw hamburger hidden in a Fanny Farmer box. Vote...
...Believe Time," when he tells the boys and girls to make sure that all the "big people" are out of the room. When Make Believe Time finally gets started, Ko-Ko takes off his rubber nose, lights a cigarette, matter-of-factly announces "We have a request from Ricky Allen of Maplewood, New Jersey for page 43 of Philosophy of the Bedroom by the Marquis de Sade," and starts reading...