Word: eggheads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secure in the publicist's truth that out of the mouths of stars comes hot copy, Jackie strews absurdities, inconsistencies, generalities, banalities and wisecracks with calculated sincerity: Critics. Egghead-doubledomes! There are about eight influential critics and all they want is books that only they can understand...
...seek advice. Without background, it must be terrifying to become a centimillionaire at 37. But let me allay your anxieties at once. Being very rich is mostly what raucous people call a gas. C. Wright Mills, one of the egghead sociologists, was near the mark when he said: "If the rich are not happy, it is because none of us is happy." Sophie Tucker got it right the first time. "I've been rich and I've been poor," she said. "Rich is better...
AFTER THE RAIN is an eggshell of a play from an egghead playwright. John Bowen borrows and embalms theatrical modes and ideas from Bertolt Brecht, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell and Peter Weiss and colors them in a fashionable shade of apocalypstick. As the tyrannical leader of a Noah-like band of survivors from the flood of 1969, Alec McCowen is convincingly diabolical as he plucks open the soul of a power maniac...
AFTER THE RAIN is an eggshell of a play from an egghead playwright. John Bowen borrows and embalms theatrical modes and ideas from Bertolt Brecht, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Peter Weiss and colors them in a fashionable shade of apocalypstick. As the tyrannical leader of a Noah-like band of survivors from the flood of 1969, Alec McCowen is convincingly diabolical as he plucks open the soul of a power maniac...
Wednesday, October 19 BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* The latest guest-villain is Vincent Price, who plays Egghead in "An Egg Grows in Gotham." Robin and friend scramble his fowl plans to take over the city...