Word: castaway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...form of a review of a nonexistent book. Lem, of course, is both reviewer and conceiver of the unwritten texts. Some are fairly straightforward social and literary satires. Les Robinsonades dismisses Defoe's Robinson Crusoe as a puritanized fiction based on a brutish factual account of a castaway (which it was), and presents a New Robinson who is not nostalgic for a lost culture. He re-creates his world from scratch, dreaming into being a manservant named Snibbins and a three-legged female companion called Wendy Mae. The course of true creation never runs smoothly. "Thus the logically perfect...
Lange benefits from some of Semple's best lines. Unlike Fay Wray in the original, who was mostly called upon to scream and faint, Lange plays a sexually hip chick, a movie starlet who literally drifts into the picture as a castaway from a wrecked yacht on which she was cruising with a movie producer who had promised her a part. Once she gets over the shock of Kong's first spectacular pickup, she treats him like all the apelike movie moguls she has had to fend off. She tries helplessness ("I can't stand heights"), anger...
Unlike many independently wealthy ambassadors, Moynihan lives entirely off his $44,600 U.N. salary. The Moynihans are provided with the Waldorf suite, a car and a driver. But their only servant is Hives, a life-sized papier-mache butler who stands at the door of the apartment wearing the castaway clothes of a warm-blooded English butler who once worked for them. The figure is the creation of their son Tim. With all three children away at school, Hives and a wire-haired fox terrier named...
...York now for a rest," she jokes-and she still writes about the women's movement, which she has been involved in since her teens. Her advocacy of women's rights has not lessened over the years, and she wrote an essay, "Woman, a Technological Castaway," for the 1973 Encyclopaedia Britannica Yearbook. "In every marriage there are two marriages," she wrote. "His and hers. His is better . . . What man now calls woman's natural feminine mentality is the unnatural slave mentality he forced on her, just as he forced it on the blacks. He made...
...West Coast, "Tie-Dye Annie." Dark-haired Ann Thomas, born 33 years ago in New York City, was a copywriter for Capitol Records and worked for an ad agency in Hawaii before dropping out in Haight-Ashbury in 1967. There, at the Free Store, she learned to tie-dye castaway clothes. "It was the only way we had to give them our own individual stamp of identity," she explains, "as well as making them beautiful...