Word: amber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. By Linda Darnell, 40, fawn-eyed brunette who played the brazen heroine of Forever Amber Merle Roy Robertson, 43, her third husband, an American Airlines 707 captain; after six years of marriage, no children; on grounds of cruelty and adultery (she accused him of fathering an illegitimate child by a Yugoslav actress); in Los Angeles...
...light tan. Eagle proposed a contest for more colorful descriptions, as a starter suggested navel orange and whizzer white. Along Madison Avenue, and in Mineola, Mamaroneck and Montclair, the game caught on. Eagle has been deluged with a chromatic list of imaginative new colors. Among them: gang green, forever amber, sick bay, hash brown, dorian grey, hi ho silver and statutory grape. Upcoming out of Quakertown: a shirt in "unforeseeable fuchsia...
...statement heightened curiosity about Find-A-Bird. Agents of the secretive organization are known to use code names such as Amber-throated Warbler, Hooded Heron, Owl, Field Lark, and Toucan. Rumors that all of these agents are, in fact, CRIMSON editors remain unconfirmed. Commented CRIMSON president Joseph M. Russin '64, "No comment." Managing editor Bruce L. Palsner '64 could not be reached last night...
Critics will never admit it, and the reader's good sense denies it, but sometimes bad writing is best. Good writing would never have produced Eliza crossing the ice. Scarlet and Rhett. Ivanhoe. Amber, James Bond, Arrowsmith, Queeg's ball bearings, or any of the Bobbsey twins. The best and most enjoyable bad writing ever done by an American is Hemingway's in To Have and Have Not, but when some anthologist pastes together the definitive collection of Great Moments from Bad Novels, he should give a secondary dedication, at least, to Frederic Wakeman...
...brutal repression of the natives during the '20s. All clues finally lead to Valletta, where V., disguised as the Bad Priest, is injured in a World War II air raid and is disassembled by a band of children: her glass eye is stolen; her false feet of amber and gold, with veins in intaglio are removed; a sapphire is dug from her navel...