Word: boys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wouldn't dream of evaluating the sincerity of Smut Dealer Larry Flynt's conversion to being a Hustler for the Lord [Dec. 5]. But if Flynt has truly become a devotee of the "Big Boy upstairs," all I can say is that there must be some truth in the saying "miracles never cease...
...edition of the dictionary, the first since 1965, dropped 3.500 obsolete titles, such as bowling-pin setters, but added 2.100 new ones. To comply with the equal employment opportunity law, cataloguers tortuously rewrote some old job titles. A bat boy became a bat handler, a shoeshine boy a shoe shiner, and a draftsman a drafter. But the title of job No. 159.647-022, someone who "parades across stage to provide background for a chorus line," remained unchanged. Even bureaucrats could not swallow "show person...
...reticence makes Adams' Eliza Hamilton Quarles a pallid, rather bloodless character. As a woman who came of age 20 years ago, Eliza is well versed in the arts of discretion and coping. She has to be. Her sexually ambivalent husband killed himself after becoming keen on a beautiful boy, leaving her with a baby daughter and an unfulfilled life. Eliza has little instinct for what her mother Josephine calls the "social realities." Josephine is formidable: a successful writer with another daughter and a number of former husbands left in or under the dust. She is also a hardheaded survivor...
...wedlock. One of Eliza's former co-workers retreats to a women's commune, the other to hustling in Las Vegas. There is a rather bizarre episode reminiscent of those murky French "art movies" of the '50s: Eliza has an affair with the beautiful boy who caused her husband's suicide. She also has to di gest the fact that her half sister, too, was in love with...
...phantom crowds that cheered on Walter Payton as a boy are for real. As a super running back for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League, he has transformed the Windy City into Payton Place, where adoring fans and the daily papers call him "Wonderful Walter." Little wonder. In his third year as a pro, Payton, 23, has not only broken O.J. Simpson's single-game rushing mark of 273 yds. (275 yds. in November's game against the Minnesota Vikings) but is also helping to keep the rebuilding Bears in contention for a play-off spot...