Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carrying a little bag. He knocked at the suite of Valentino's bereaved lover, Pola Negri, told the maid he was a physician and introduced himself to Miss Negri as a close friend of Valentino's. "Rudy would have wanted me to take care of you, my dear," Miss Negri later reported his saying. "You are very thoughtful," she replied...
...story, but consider the plot: the colored golf champion of Chicago, who reads Plato, loses a leg under a moving train and finally grows it back in Heaven. A magazine fiction editor might reach for a rejection slip were it not for the byline: F. Scott Fitzgerald. The unpublished "Dearly Beloved," a forerunner of the black-is-beautiful genre, was discovered among a collection of Fitzgerald's papers at the Princeton University Library, and is included in the first number of a schol- arly journal known as the Fitzgerald-Hemingway Annual. Written shortly before the novelist's death...
...Hello," the reporter would say sternly, "this is Lieutenant Murphy from the Detective Bureau. We have a report of a shooting at this address. Is it true?. . . Is he dead? . . . Four times in the head, huh? . . . Who shot him? . . . You did? . . . Now get hold of yourself, dear. Why did you do it? . . . Messin' with another woman, huh? . . . Did you catch 'em in bed or something? . . . Were they naked? . . . What did your boy friend do for a livin'? . . .A laborer, huh? O.K., the squad car will be right there. Goodbye...
Actress Jacqueline Bisset was not eager to belt a 68-year-old grandmother in the face, but the old woman was not one bit impressed by her deferential pat on the cheek. "You'll have to hit me harder than that, dear, if the scene's going to work." So Helen Hayes took a good smash from Miss Bisset-and the scene worked. Back in Hollywood, after a 13-year absence, for the filming of Arthur Hailey's bestseller Airport, the great lady of the stage still scorns a standin. In her role as chronic stowaway...
Norman Mailer's mayorality campaign well illustrates the ridiculous extremes to which the New Politics' commitment to principle can go. It was a campaign dear to many of the New York intelligensia-a campaign run with panache, with striking, if exceedingly poor, ideas such as making New York City the 51st state. The most visible result of the campaign was, however, to push Mario Procaccino--a symbol of all the New Politics hates--that much closer to getting the mayorality by talking votes away from Herman Badillo, Procaccino's chief liberal opponent...