Word: dinked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Admissions Committee announces it has hired Otto Preminger to produce a new Harvard promotional film to replace "Experience," entitled, "Tell Me That You Love Me, Derek Bok". (Informed sources report this is in reaction to a Yale announcement that it has hired Ken Russell to produce a movie of "Dink Stover at Yale" starring Twiggy as Dink Stover at Yale" starring Twiggy as Dink and Glenda Jackson as Kingman Brewster.) On frontispiece we see CHASE PETERSON (in madras sunglasses) and PREMINGER examining mockups of Kirkland House and Arthur Smithies, recreated on a studio back...
...successfully mounts a science fair project dealing with the effects of radiation on the growth of marigolds. It is as small an event as Laura's dance with the Gentleman Caller in the Williams prototype and just as affecting. Craftily enough Zindel goes on to turn this rinky-dink science fair exhibit into a metaphor that ties the whole work together in a neat and ambivalent fashion by the final curtain...
...hurt our plans," Levett said. "Now, we work this way: if your father owns stock, you ask who else owns stock. It's a rinky-dink way of running an operation, but without lists, what...
Awake Nights. San Clemente is doing its best to take a resident President in stride. "I personally think it's kind of small-town hinky-dink," says Mayor Evans of the big welcome banners that used to greet Nixon on arrival. Still. Nixon watching is a full-time occupation for many. Mrs. Doris Dennis, a San Clemente housewife, last year waited for two hours at Nixon's helicopter pad in hopes of taking his picture, and was doubly rewarded when he shook her hand. "After that, I wrote Mr. and Mrs. Nixon, and I told them that they...
...time, one of the best -rock groups of the last decade. They pushed the smooth syncopation of Detroit's Motown sound onto the top of the charts with twelve No. 1 records. But then came the new rocks-and the Supremes suddenly sounded a little rinky dink. Kind of nice, maybe, but definitely oldfashioned. So Diana decided to go another route. A song that she sings in her new nightclub act points the direction...