Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Graduate doesn't hold water dramatically or structurally, and ultimately says nothing. Nichols' satire of the uppermiddle class establishment dates back 15 years, and has the impact of a butter knife. A thematic cop-out, The Graduate's simplistic affirmation of love, honesty, and individual liberation provide the cold comfort of a second-rate Aesop fable...
...number of women are publishing too: Edna O'Brien (The Lonely Girl) will crank out yet another book about Kate and Baba-now married, unhappily of course. Simone de Beauvoir's Les Belles Images is about a lady executive who of course becomes disenchanted with comfort, possessions and conventional life. Brigid Brophy and Pamela Hansford Johnson are both writing about modern London; Brigid's is comic, Pamela's serious...
Better Break for the Fans To judge from the latest group of mammoth sports palaces, the real winners at games in the future will be the folks in the stands. Spectators can figure on walking shorter distances, sitting in living-room comfort and enjoying a better view of the action than ever before. Latest proof is the 19,000-seat Forum in suburban Inglewood, Calif., ten miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles. The $16.5 million Forum is the brainchild of Millionaire Sportsman Jack Kent Cooke, 55, who decided to put up a new home for his Los Angeles Lakers...
Something seemed to be getting too hot for comfort in the town government of Islip, N.Y.; inside of a year, 14 high-ranking officials quietly resigned. So Newsday, the Long Island daily, started to poke into the matter. The more it poked, the more it found. After three months' digging, the paper finally unearthed the kind of conflict-of-interest scandal that every editor dreams...
...everyone was at the premiere. But those who were there -plus everyone watching the TV coverage of the event-saw Joan erupting from a Castillo Paris gown that was the dressmaker's equivalent of the Marianas Trench. Far from courting publicity, Joan said, she was just seeking comfort-and "most clothes these days are so rigidly constructed you feel as if you were put together, not dressed...