Word: eggheaded
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Lear has the sort of temperament that might be described by Archie Bunker as "hebe Hollywood egghead"-or, if Archie knew the word, compulsive. The only eye in the hurricane of activity that he whips up around him each day is the moment when he retires to the men's room for a thorough perusal of the New York Times. One of his two outside interests is writing letters to Presidents and other political leaders on such topics as Viet Nam, the ICBM debate and school desegregation. His voluminous correspondence with four Administrations is filed in a cabinet...
...last episode, you remember, Zira and Cornelius, the egghead chim- panzees who had come back from the year 3000 via a time warp, were hunted down and killed by their human hosts, who were frightened by the prospect of a future world run by apes. In the next installment, to be released later this month, the chimpanzees' destiny is fulfilled anyway, as Zira and Cornelius' son Caesar leads a revolt of the simians, who begin to build their own civilization and await the arrival of Charlton Heston. the famous astronaut whose visit was described in Episode 1 . . . Anybody...
...surprise to find another Kazan in show business. The only surprise about Chris Kazan is that he came to it so late. After all, his father is a famous director and his mother Molly, who died in 1963, was a playwright with at least one Broadway show (The Egghead) to her credit...
...Cardinal Mindszenty's exile was certainly not "a wasteful expense of spirit." He served as a source of strength all over the world. The writer of your article must be a lily-livered, milk-toast egghead who would have cracked after the first day at the hands of the Communists...
Apart from broadcasting status, the picturephones contribute little to the smoother workings of Government. To Egghead Kissinger, they are a technological mystery. He will not call on the device, but does take calls, with a bit of fuming and fussing as he tries to work the thing. "Technology gone mad," he has been heard to mutter. One day when a picturephone call came in, Ehrlichman's large, balding head materialized on Kissinger's screen and his deep voice intoned: "Push the center button, Henry...