Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Experience." In his first two talks, he dwelled on what he called the root problem of contemporary religion-the "immolation of history," or the tendency of modern man to rebel against his past. The rejection of history, Cox argued, not only throws out the good of tradition with the bad, but "can result in a corrosive contempt for the present." In his third lecture, entitled "Christ the Harlequin"-appropriately accompanied by psychedelic strobe lighting and calliope music-Cox suggested that the church can help bridge the credibility gap between past and present by reviving the "joy, festivity and holy mirth...
Pastel and pillarless, the new Garden itself was part of the attraction. When it first opened, New York newspapers sniped at its imperfections: a few (approximately 1,500 out of 20,500) seats with bad sight lines for hockey and track, water leaking from the ceiling, a nonfunctioning electric Scoreboard and clock. Even so, its problems were nothing compared with those at the new Philadelphia Spectrum, where the roof blew off, or the Inglewood Forum, which boasts southern California's most awesome traffic jam in its parking lot. By fight night, most of the Garden's problems...
...Their specifications are a carefully kept secret mainly because Andy is currently suing the U.S. Auto Club, which last summer passed new rules aimed at limiting the power of turbine racing cars. The few details that have leaked out seem to indicate that the U.S.A.C.'s aim was bad; reduced engine power or no, Granatelli's turbines are still likely to be the fastest racers on the track. The new cars are chiselnosed, so low to the ground that the only part of the body higher than the tires is the exhaust funnel located be hind the driver...
...eight. They also rely heavily on antique comic relief as subtle as a pig bladder. Charlie's No. 1 and No. 2 sons incessantly glue up the clues, and a procession of Negro buffoons (Mantan Moreland, Stepin Fetchit, Willie Best) pop their eyes at every corpse. But bad as the films were, they were also an undergraduate school through which passed some able and attractive players, among them Rita Hayworth, Ray Milland and William Holden. For Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936), Oscar Levant actually composed an original opera...
Leslie Braverman, a celebrated critic, dies suddenly at 41. Among the mourners are four of his friends: a flamboyantly mustachioed fund raiser (George Segal); a gruff, insecure womanizer (Jack Warden) who, upon hearing the bad news while in bed with his girl, dutifully removes his toupee; an oleaginous scholar of comic books (Sorrell Booke); and a Talmudic professor-lecturer (Joseph Wiseman) who wears an expression of perpetual disgust, as if he were forever smelling fried...