Word: dials
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WINTER KILLS by RICHARD CONDON 304 pages. Dial...
...Shakespeare produced more dubious double entendres than anyone before or since. Some are readily perceived: Hamlet's announcement, "Then came each actor on his ass," meant then what it does now. In the first Elizabethan world - when there were some 40 euphemisms for sexual organs (including will, dial and den)-almost every passage twinkled with lewdness. Like today's cheerless smut, the Elizabethan bawdiness was both deplored and exploited. The nonsexual slang has traveled with greater success: here are the witches in Macbeth, telling each other to "cool it"; here is Anthony in Julius Caesar: "I have neither...
...paid up to $250 each, enjoyed three hours of celluloid suspense. Clips from many of Hitchcock's 56 movies were interspersed with personal appearances by French Director François Truffaut, Joan Fontaine (Rebecca), Janet Leigh (Psycho). Cyril Ritchard (Blackmail) and Monaco's Princess Grace (Rear Window, Dial M for Murder). Grace, whose career was made in Hitchcock movies, quoted one of Hitch's quips. After being stuffed into a tightfitting gold lamé ballgown for To Catch a Thief, she was greeted by him with "There's hills in them thar gold." As for Hitchcock...
Back in 1944, missing both the art and the message in George Orwell's Animal Farm, Dial Press rejected the book, explaining to Orwell, "It's impossible to sell animal stories in the United States." In trying to sell Richard Adams' story as a straight adult novel with trendy environmental over tones, Macmillan (also publisher of Jonathan Livingston Seagull) may be making the same mistake in reverse. All the praises and prizes that Water ship Down has received have gone to it as the kind of nature-loving and highly literate juvenile that British children can read...
...unfortunates that did not get a ticket for tonight, you can catch all the action as it happens over WHRB radio, 95.3 on your FM dial, starting at 7:55 p.m. Colorful Bill Coughlin will be behind the mike tonight...