Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indian journalist stated unequivocally that the U.S.'s greatest contribution to modern times is free matches. "Every place else in the world, you have to buy them from government monopolies." he said. "Here they come sliding out of cigarette machines even if the cigarettes don't." Bargain-hunting French students have discovered the free samples and trial offers in U.S. magazines. "My second day in Boston. I bought a dozen magazines, clipped out all the coupons, and mailed them all in." says one. Among his samples: one Japanese-made cigarette lighter, three packets of postage stamps on approval...
...clothes are only shaping it." Man is no better prepared to solve the problems of shelter, said Rudofsky. "About a generation ago, great exertions were made to lift architecture above the level of pastiche." Yet, with "fashionable change slowly getting the better of invention, a kind of bargain Taj Mahal is already infiltrating contemporary architecture as portents of failure." Chief practitioner of this kind of architecture, says Rudofsky, is Edward D. Stone, famed for the neo-Moorish latticework walls he wraps around his buildings: "He throws in a veil of mechanical ornament, a smokescreen of stone, so that...
...each other for dominance of seagoing labor. Hoping to forge ahead of Hall, Joe Curran this year demanded a 30-hour work week, a 12% package wage increase over four years, and assorted fringes. Hall, not to be outdone, asked management for something much more controversial-the right to bargain for more than 20,000 foreign sailors who man U.S.-owned ships registered abroad. (Curran made the same demand, but passed word that he would drydock it for sweeter wages and hours...
Jean Genet's The Blacks, a savage allegory of racial antagonisms that range over the whole color spectrum, is the best bargain on the subway circuit. Genet's jaundiced view of life is also represented in The Balcony, in which the world is seen as the inside of a brothel. Rising Playwright Edward Albee has not yet gone the distance, but has built a considerable reputation on such hard-hitting one-acters as The American Dream and The Death of Bessie Smith, now playing on a dual bill. Also recommended: Anne Meacham as a superb Hedda Gabler...
...Internal Revenue Service would answer to the Senate if it allowed the tax exemptions for contributions toward Castro tractors, and Byrd is the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which has a lot to say about such things. By the dozens, Senators and Representatives arose to denounce the bargain. Among the most effective speeches was one by Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd. Said he: "Our national concern for the plight of the Cubans . . . should have been evidenced by effective help on the beachhead to enable their just revolution to succeed. By paying Castro's price...