Word: bed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...executives did little to discourage the impression, fostered by a suggestive New York magazine article, that she was a blonde seductress who would do anything to get stories. Worse, certain CBS executives evidently began to believe it. Quinn describes the efforts of some of them to land her in bed, most notably those of Sixty Minutes Producer Don Hewitt, who, she says, got himself assigned to direct her coverage of Princess Anne's wedding and announced, "London is such a nice place to have an affair." Quinn also has unkind words for CBS Correspondent Mike Wallace...
...matter. Elton and Bernie recognized at once that each could do what the other could not. They bought a bunk bed and rented digs together in Islington, a grimy section of North London, where they perfected remarkably friction-free methods of collaborating. "It's so simple," says Taupin. "Bernie writes lyrics. Bernie gives lyrics to Elton. Elton writes a song. And plays it back to Bernie. It sounds cold, but it's not." It takes Bernie only an hour to write the words and Elton about half that time to set them to music. Though they may throw...
Easing Entry. Some townspeople reopened Sutherland's long-shuttered 20-bed hospital and fixed it up as living quarters for the two families. Others donated furniture, kitchen utensils, television sets and children's toys and bicycles. All did their best to make the Vietnamese feel at home. "We are lucky to be here," Tran's wife told her new neighbors. "No," replied Mrs. Sandy Meissner, wife of Sutherland's mayor, "we are lucky to have...
...followed a trail of strange footprints. Three small brown men, naked except for loin pouches made of leaves, were digging up a large root with a sharp stick. When they saw him, they fled like monkeys. Shouting reassurance, Dafal gave chase until the men stopped in a stream bed, trembling...
Edna St. Vincent Millay aroused both Wilson's intellectual and physical passion to "a blaze of ecstasy." But Millay, who had the same effect on dozens of men, was soon off for Europe. Wilson had to share his farewell embrace on a day bed with another admirer, John Peale Bishop, "I [holding] her lower half and John her upper-with a polite exchange of pleasantries as to which had the better share...