Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter's election victory has set off a second race for power in Washington-this one social, but contested every bit as vigorously as the political campaign that brought the Georgians to power. The struggle, waged chiefly in and around a handful of Georgetown drawing rooms, is over who will become the new doyennes of capital society. The contest has some importance as well as entertainment value in Washington, a company town in which hostesses constitute a sort of fifth estate; they bring together the men (and women) of power to get to know each other better...
...breakthrough in fashion misogyny displays was Photographer Helmut Newton's spread in the May 1975 Vogue ("The Story of Ohhh ..."), which included shots of a woman wincing in pain as a man bit her left ear, and another of a man ramming a hand into a woman's breast. Newton, who is regarded as one of the fashion world's most elegant photographers-and also one of its kings of kink-has since turned out a series of pictures showing women as killers and victims. Perhaps the most shocking showed a woman's head being forced...
...that Beckett still keeps in his repertoire. He tosses off one-liners with apparent ease: "Ah, Morvan, you'd be the death of me if I were sufficiently alive!" His precise stage directions insist that props misfire with exquisite timing. He can make a character comment on a bit of stage business while implying a condemnation of life: "This gag has gone on long enough...
Three Noises. The Rev. Thomas Meersman, the Roman Catholic prison chaplain, intoned the last rites. Fortified by a bit of contraband whisky smuggled into the prison, Gilmore remained calm as the state medical examiner pinned a target over his heart. Nor did he flinch when the doctor fitted the black corduroy hood over his head. Then the priest placed his hand on Gilmore's shoulder. Tilting his head, the condemned man, who was reared as a Catholic, spoke his last words: "Dominus vobiscum [The Lord be with you]." Replied Father Meersman: "Et cum spiritu tuo [And with your spirit...
Over the hill at eleven. When TV's Dennis the Menace went off the air in 1963, Terrible Tyke Jay North found the going a bit like his dog-Ruff. After some guest spots, a handful of movies and a short-lived TV series (Maya), his career simply dried up. Ready for something new, North, now 25, signed up for a four-year hitch in the Navy. The Naval Reserve captain assigned to swear him in turned out to be another former child star: Jackie Cooper, 54. Said Cooper: "I think North is making a good choice. Most...