Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DEAN (turning to his textbook): The dictionary calls it "confused, unintelligible language: gibberish, a dialect regarded as barbarous or outlandish." But we at Instant call it the Expert's Ultimate Weapon. In 1967, it will hypnotize friends, quash enemies and intimidate whole nations. Follow...
...technique for getting out of their helicopters even before they land. In unsecured areas where the enemy may be lying in wait, the troops clamber out on the skids, and as the chopper flutters down to five or six feet above the landing area, they jump. They call themselves the "Headhunters...
...Viet Nam they've declared a truce for Christmas." In Athens' complex politics, the reason for the timing was far from clear. But some saw the fine hand of wily old ex-Premier George Papandreou, who for months has been demanding that the government resign and call new elections. It was Papandreou whom Stephanopoulos ultimately succeeded in 1965, after discovery of an abortive plot to infiltrate the military with leftists. Kanellopoulos supposedly agreed to press for an amnesty for the accused plotters (among them, Papandreou's son); in return, the popular, antimonarchist Papandreou would consent to hold...
...French Author François Sagan, 31, with a certain smile. "In America, they trust you," she wrote in the weekly Candide. "They will lend you their cars, their apartments, anything. They are so open that it's troubling. The taxi driver tells you his life story, salesgirls call you 'honey.'" Hélas, she also found much tristesse: "Americans are afraid, afraid of everything, especially of losing their position, of being sick, of not being able to pay their installments on time. And of their redoubtable women they are afraid above all else." Still, the redoubtable...
...like her, to sing her song." Bruno Coquatrix, director of Paris' most coveted show case, the Olympia Music Hall (where Françoise signed on for three weeks and stayed for eight), sees her as "a symbol of the mystery of youth, the instinct of the devil." Others call her "the Françoise Sagan of French singing," even though the song lyrics that she writes are hardly literary. "I never erase or start over," she says. They are mostly banal ballads for the yé-yé lovelorn...