Word: cots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moving to Manhattan, she shared an apartment for a while, but then began lugging a portable cot around with her and mooching space where she could-in friends' apartments, public relations offices, studio lofts. She swept the floor at the Cherry Lane Theater and took acting lessons from Drama Coach Allan Miller and Eli Rill. She dyed her hair red, wore white makeup, and dressed in black tights, feathered boas and 1925 hats. Barbra has never striven to be inconspicuous...
...command. After a few weeks under Peck's care he-come to think of it, Colonel Bliss commits suicide. But take Little Jim (Bobby Darin), a sad sack in a flat funk until Peck shoots him full of s.p. For about ten minutes Bobby lies on a cot making faces like Harpo Marx, and then zowie! he's cured. He flies back to his unit, takes off on a bombing mission, runs into flak and- Well, who cares about the patients when nurses like Angie Dickinson are on duty-not to mention Tony Curtis...
...their books on France, Andre Malraux, Albert Guerard (pere), Genevieve Tabouis (of the leftist L'Oeuvre), and the Popular Front's Minister of Air Pierre Cot argued that the doctrinaire opposition of these men to the Third Republic--their verbal and physical violence against it--had demoralized the French: in incompetence of her generals in the brief military campaign only made more swift the country's by then inevitable collapse. Since many on the Right went on to become collaborators with the Germans--at least in associating themselves with the Vichy government--and since, after the Liberation, almost...
...Spartan Cot. Kassem's brief regime reads like a case history in dangerous living. He savagely put down one abortive revolt, narrowly escaped death in an assassination attempt in which his arm and hand were shattered by bullets. Understandably gun-shy, he spent most of his time inside the Defense Ministry building, where he slept on a spartan cot and watched suspiciously for trouble...
...late teens, Dancer worked as a groom, mucking out stalls at New York's Roosevelt Raceway, and got himself a cot in the racetrack's tack room to cut expenses. Married at 20, he borrowed $250 from his bride to buy a crippled seven-year-old trotter named Candor that he patiently nursed back to health and trained on snow-covered bridle paths in New Jersey. Candor repaid him by winning $12,000 in three years, and Dancer built a five-room ranch house at New Egypt...