Word: bond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spies. It did not take nearly so long to tumble to the idea of rebottling Bond. The most imaginative of the imitators seems likely to be Get Smart (NBC), a spoof of the already spoofish Man from U.N.C.L.E., featuring Comic Don Adams as Agent Maxwell Smart (get it?-"Get Smart!"). Blooper-Spy Smart hasn't much cool. When his captor says he does not believe there are six Coast Guard cutters on the way to the rescue, Smart asks: "Would you believe five...
Released from jail on $5,000 bond, Reese faced an audience of some 350 Negroes, bowed to a standing ovation, and outdid Abernathy in his emotional approach: "The white man is not after Reese. He is after us. We must trust one another and stick together. If anybody knows about embezzlement, the Southern white man knows. He embezzled my mother, he embezzled my grandmother, he embezzled my grandfather. He cannot say to anybody, 'You are accused of embezzlement,' because if we could collect all he embezzled, the white man would be in rags...
Made in 1932 during the Depression, the film concerns the life of the overly rich. Into the poshsetting Lubitsch injects a con man par excellence, far smoother than the bungling James Bond, with overtones of the earthy Mack the Knife. A zany situation comedy follows, set on a foundation of social pretense. Lubitsch pours on the humor, doubling joke upon joke, until his audience splits with laughter. Thirty years later it is just a s effective...
This pattern may spread, may well be the shape of domestic service in an industrial democracy. And so, alas, exeunt Jeeves, Passepartout and Pseudolus, to become IBM cards in the files of an impersonal Mary Poppins, Inc. No "existentialist bond" perhaps, no love lost, no mutual dependence. But at least-and at best-a new, professional sense of service and a more civilized life...
Married. Kingsley Amis, 43, Britain's maturing, anti-Establishment novelist (One Fat Englishman), most recently turned student of 007 (The James Bond Dossier), whom he humorously and minutely examines from poison tip to blade-edged toe; and Elizabeth Jane Howard, 42, fellow novelist (The Sea Change); he for the second time, she for the third; in London...