Word: chums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vertigo takes this Hitchcockian transference of guilt-from criminal to innocent onlooker to movie watcher-one disturbing step further. Scottie Ferguson (Stewart) is another immobilized hero; the former detective's fear of heights had resulted in the death of a policeman. Now an old college chum has put Scottie on the trail of his disturbed wife Madeleine (Kim Novak), who believes herself possessed by the spirit of her suicidal great-great-grandmother. Scottie follows Madeleine up and down the hills of San Francisco, a vertiginous setting where even the streets have lost their balance. At first...
...Bradlee, now the executive editor of the Washington Post, had been a Georgetown neighbor and particular chum of Kennedy's. Working then for Newsweek, he would sometimes be asked by his editors to find out for competitive reasons whose face would be on the cover of TIME the following week. Bradlee would ask the President, who would find out and call back. Bradlee got one exclusive story about Kennedy's past personal life, involving a false report of an earlier J.F.K. marriage, when the President agreed to let Bradlee secretly examine for 24 hours all the FBI files...
...your article "Here Come the Robots" [March 7], Computer Journalist Carl Helmers stated, "These robots will be perceived as companions, like dogs or cats." Anybody who thinks a robot can be a chum, equal to a dog or a cat, is more a mass of shorted circuits than he is human...
...course, he should have known better. Jerry is not only his college chum and a literary agent with whom Robert, a publisher, has done much mutually profitable business. He has also been Robert's habitual squash partner, but lately he has been avoiding the courts. Obviously any man who treats the rituals of male bonding in such a cavalier fashion is capable of anything...
...otherwise much of a culinary performer, has been brewing the au naturel dressing in his Connecticut cave for years and giving the bottles away as Christmas gifts. With a pinch of immodesty, he says he became "a prisoner of my own excellence." With the help of his chum A.E. Hotchner, 62, whose concoctions are usually literary (Papa Heming way), the actor is marketing the dressing in supermarkets around the country. The bottle, adorned with Newman's visage and the glint of his Iceberg-blue eyes, is priced between $1.19 and $1.39. The profits, if any (some critics...