Word: boneyard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best friend in his arms and kiss him, Charlie wards off the advances of Pat Boone (sacred love) and Walter Matthau (profane). By the last reel, he/she/it has turned up in a more felicitous incarnation. Too late, though. Public apathy is apt to send Charlie off to the boneyard reserved for classic Hollywood fumbles...
...filled with all manner of wonders, from prehistoric boneyard relics to magical performances of the galaxies held in the darkened planetarium...
...watching Sally Bowles salute the morning with raw eggs and gin, he smiled sadly, "I am a camera." There was no question of love or hate, of reaction; the sensitive recording device functioned, but the rest of the apparatus was missing. Years later in California, that boneyard for aging British intellectuals, Isherwood's camera still clicks away. Its subjects are less often street scenes than the landscapes of the mind, but the limiting flaw persists. The camera now surveys a middle-aged British homosexual, a professor of literature whose roommate has been killed in an auto accident. This deprivation...
When CBS announced that giveaway shows could no longer accept free goods in exchange for plugs on the air (TIME, Dec. 14), merchandise marts such as Art Linkletter's House Party seemed to be headed for the boneyard. Last week CBS gave them new life, promised to reimburse the giveaway shows for the cost of the hardware that was formerly provided by schlock-hungry companies. The bill will not be cheap: House Party and two other Linkletter shows alone will cost the network about $3,000 a week...