Word: alleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked for toast. When President Johnson declared war on poverty, he went out and threw a hand grenade at a beggar. To lose weight he started eating saccharin-and got artificial diabetes. He fell in love with a promiscuous girl, so promiscuous she became a hostess in an alley...
SUMMER PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). As a writer trying to escape the joys of New York living, Walter Matthau discovers just how green the grass is when he and Wife Anne Jackson have to hole up in a spare room in a bowling alley while their newly acquired farmhouse is being cleared of its Country Mouse...
...trickery. He works from arresting angles, all but caressing the decor of a world made to order for the filthy rich. Fond of polished surfaces, he dotes on reflections in mirrors, sunglasses, brandy snifters. But the validity of Eva lies in Moreau's accomplished bitchery. As a sleek alley cat commuting at her whim between Venice and Rome, she slinks from warm beds to warm baths, purring over her furs and silks and blues records with such hypnotic self-absorption that even a silly role begins to seem not just interesting but absolutely essential to watch...
...have once thought so. But after 13 years Ogden Nash came to the conclusion that it was time for him to go. Manhattan was no longer up his alley. The cost of living! Twelve bucks for a dozen lilies of the valley. So he packed up pun pen and went back where he lived before. To Baltimore. There, he sang the oriole's springtime song: "I'm back where I belong...
...sold his soul to the Devil, and the ferocious Badaró brothers, Juca and Sinhõ. Neither Juca nor Colonel Horacio would dream of having a face-to-face showdown in Ilhéus' main street, but each knew that every tree, every clump of bushes, every dark alley might conceal an assassin...