Word: brands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fledgling company employed a 19-year-old engineer named Ezekiel Straw, who would later become Governor of New Hampshire, to lay out a brand-new town. Straw produced one of the most cohesive urban designs in the country. With the millyard as the heart of town, he provided for a commercial district, corporation tenements, housing lots, a cemetery, public buildings and six public commons. The company donated land for schools and churches. The first building-which is among those to be wrecked-went up in 1838, the last in 1915. Over the century of Amoskeag's existence, the architectural...
...question is not only whether Tom Wolfe can be taken seriously but whether he can be taken at all. He uses a language that explodes with comic-book words like "POW!" and "boing." His sentences are shot with ellipses, stabbed with exclamation points, or bombarded with long lists of brand names and anatomical terms. He is irritating, but he did develop a new journalistic idiom that has brought relief from standard Middle-High Journalese. His outlook is partly cool, partly hysterical, and just slightly unconventional enough to make it provocative. The need for journalists like Wolfe is clear...
After chasing each other around the track for years, Detroit's automakers and their foreign competition now appear to be coming full circle. The U.S. is about to undergo another compact-car race with a brand new generation of minimodels...
...film's hapless hero is a brand-new bobby named Peter Strange (Michael York), who has flunked out of the University of London and joined the London police force to assuage his social conscience. After a few days on the beat, Peter meets a carefree pusher named Quince (Jack Watson), his two sadistic sons, a detective with a badge for a heart (Jeremy Kemp), and a libidinous bird named Fred (Susan George). Soon he's up to his jug ears in trouble. Quince wants to fix him, the detective wants to corrupt him, and Fred just plain wants...
...written a million books, or a million years old and has written 87 books. Anyhow the figures strain the imagination-but not more so than this potty tale about a bogus butler who sets out to burgle a Worcestershire bank. Connoisseurs of the old master's brand of daffy brouhaha will savor it to the last page. For those who don't trust any writer over 80-well, maybe they should sample a little vintage Wodehouse first, like a whiff of Carry On, Jeeves! (1925), or the tiniest dollop of Love Among the Chickens...