Word: brandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE'S A LOT of humor on this album, a humor closer to the playful spirit of John Wesley Harding than the cruel mockery of "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" ("You may think he loves you for your money/But I know what he really loves you for/It's your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat") from Blonde on Blonde. Irreverence ("Gonna save my money/And rip it up"), ribald allusions ("That big dumb blonde with her wheel gorged") and word play ("One must always flush out one's house/If he doesn't expect to be housing flushes") combine to create...
...completion of another University building. According to Whitlock, who traveled through the country in the late 50s seeking funds for the new building, alumni gifts only ran up to $4000, while approximately $500,000 was needed. Then, when the Harvard comptroller moved out of Lehman Hall and into the brand new Holyoke Center, the vacant older building offered an ideal spot for Harvard's commuters...
...remember the earth moving." Columnist Art Buchwald succumbed to the charms of a 30-year-old chambermaid at the Long Island resort where he worked one summer. He was 15 at the time, said Buchwald, "and I think she seduced me." Comedienne Joan Rivers spent $42 on a brand new dress for the big event. "The whole thing lasted about a minute and a half," she reported, "including buying the dress." Actor Jack Lemmon was a student at Harvard whose big encounter became a case of coitus interruptus when a parking-lot attendant discovered him entangled with a girl...
Here it is, folks! The week you have been waiting for, the week the networks premiere their brand-new, grand new ... ah ... product mix. Admittedly that phrase falls a trifle lamely on the ear, lacking as it does the excited tone of the on-air promos they have been pumping at us all summer. It does, however, have the virtue of accuracy. To begin with, the "new season" consists mainly of old stuff. Among television's 70 regularly scheduled prime-time programs, no fewer than 45 are carryovers from last year (and, in several instances, the year before...
Even in his Houston hospital bed, Astronaut Donald "Deke" Slayton, 51, was flying high. Shortly after his July 24th return from the Apollo-Soyuz space flight, during which Slayton and fellow Crew Members Thomas Stafford and Vance Brand had inhaled poisonous fumes, doctors spotted a tiny lesion on Deke's left lung. Because of Slayton's age and past history as a chain smoker, a better than 50-50 chance of malignancy was predicted. "He's an extremely lucky man," said Dr. Charles Berry after announcing that Slayton's tumor was benign. Not only will Deke...