Word: boneyard
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...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...
...Howard Ehmke, 64, major-league right-handed pitcher who started out with the Detroit Tigers, moved on to the Boston Red Sox (no hitter v. Philadelphia in 1923), and reached his high moment, playing for Philadelphia at the end of his career, when Connie Mack summoned him from the boneyard to be a surprise starter in the first game of the 1929 World Series and he struck out 13 Chicago Cubs (including Rogers Hornsby, Hack Wilson) to set a series record that lasted for nearly a quarter of a century-until Brooklyn's Carl Erskine mowed down 14 Yankees...
...they saw the field thin rapidly as they nursed their car along. Last year's winning Jaguars, their engines cut down to meet the new 3-liter limit, began to fail after 15 minutes. Moss rattled to a stop within three hours. The course became an automobile boneyard...
...boycott continued, bringing the bus company to its economic knees. King and 89 other boycott leaders were indicted on charges of violating a 1921 antiboycott law that came straight from Alabama's legal boneyard (King's $500 fine is still under appeal). Then Montgomery's officials made a stab that very nearly paid off. They went to court for an injunction against the M.I.A. on the ground that it had set up an illegal transit system...