Word: bags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tantalize. A good example of Lombardo's expeditious, off-angle characterization is his introduction of a character named Henke (Val Avery), who is being sought by various intelligence agencies so that he can be put on ice. Henke, a sour, anonymous-looking man lugging a brown paper bag of groceries and a fresh copy of Playboy, retrieves a rubber ball for a bunch of neighborhood kids. They ask him to give it back, and he looks, for a moment, uncertain. Then he throws the ball through the glass window of a nearby apartment, whose tenant rushes out and starts...
Though the Ford Administration long ago stopped calling inflation "Public Enemy No. 1, "price increases and the prospect of more are dominating the news to a surprising extent in the early days of economic recovery. Last week brought a mixed bag of actions. The Soviets let the U.S. Government know that they want to buy additional U.S. grain in quantities that-if the sales were permitted-would be very inflationary. President Ford decided finally to permit removal of controls on oil prices, gambling that increases will be relatively modest, and General Motors announced boosts in car prices smaller than...
...Church committee has also turned up evidence of a variety of extra-legal activities practiced by the FBI. The bureau is said to have maintained special schools to train agents in the techniques of the "bag job," a euphemism for breaking and entering. The graduates-lockpickers, burglars and a few safecrackers-managed to steal some code books from foreign embassies. For this they received "incentive awards" ranging from...
...well-heeled sybarite." In a season when sybarites, and a lot of other people, are staying home in herds, the book has not notably eased Harold Wilson's balance of payments problems. As its title suggests, however, the shoestring vacation abroad has gone the way of the Gladstone bag and $4 Moët et Chandon...
Anyone who has faith in the veracity of that anecdote may also wish to make a down payment on Waterloo Bridge. As this grab bag of 484 snippets of British literary gossip demonstrates, when the unvarnished truth is lost a lacquered fabrication will do handsomely. Editor Sutherland, a professor at the University of London, may claim to have weeded out proven forgeries and falsehoods. But he readily admits to choosing (when more than one exists) the stylish version of each story, even though "it may have no apparent authority." And why not? As a class, authors may have no more...