Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with marginal indications that they be sung in a "baby or Marilyn Monroe voice," a "Marlene Dietrich foggy voice," or a jazz singer's voice. There were also-as there are in much of the music she sings-passages calling for whatever noises she cared to make -a dog's bark, a grunt, a sigh. The audience responded with plain fury, moving Cage to recite a Zen parable in Berberian's defense: In a far country there lived a beautiful girl who was desired by all the men who saw her. One day she found herself alone...
...Justice Department stalling on the prosecution of "students" who defied U.S. travel regulations and paid a propaganda visit to Castro's Cuba? "I'm not as close to Bobby as I was. He threatens a lot of people, and about all he does is walk the dog." How would Barry treat an unpatriotic teen-aged girl? "Maybe if she took off her tennis shoes and got her hair cut and took a bath, she'd be all right." When will he announce his presidential intentions? "I can't give you any timetable. I would much prefer...
...White House a lone copy of a newly published 653-page book is already badly dog-eared by New Frontiersmen. And all over Washington, those who try to keep up with the talk on the cocktail circuit are eagerly spending $7.95 for Victor Lasky's J.F.K.: The Man & the Myth...
Hairdos & Dog Hairs. Asks Lasky: "Was there ever any political leader who devoted so much time worrying about his hairdo?" He quotes Newsweek: "Kennedy carries a white manicurist's pencil to make his fingernails whiter." And Westbrook Pegler: "Kennedy looks at people through half-shut eyes. If a guy can't look me square in the eye, I don't trust him." (Almost 200 pages later, Lyndon Johnson is quoted: "I can tell a man by looking in his eyes. I looked in John Kennedy's eyes and I liked what I saw.") Lasky even quotes...
...Mitford writes, is the patriotic theme represented by "the Valley Forge," once advertised in color in an undertaker's trade journal with some Early American cupboards and a portrait of George Washington. For "the bon vivant who dreams of rubbing shoulders with the international smart set, the gay dog who would risk all on a turn of the card, there is the 'Monaco' with 'Sea Mist Polish Finish, interior richly lined in 600 Aqua Supreme Cheney velvet, magnificently quilted and shirred, with matching jumbo bolster and coverlet...