Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHARLES REVSON, president of Revlon, Inc., stepped briefly into the public eye as he appeared before the congressional subcommittee investigating the rigged TV shows, which included two that he sponsored. While Charlie Revson is little known to TV viewers, he is recognized in his own circle as a man who makes Madison Avenue tremble and his competitors writhe with fury. See BUSINESS, The Unflabbergasted Genius...
...which makes a 90° turn), the light has been known to flick from red to green and hold for only 16 seconds-just long enough to let three left-turning cars through, and get the piled-up traffic rolling. Then its timer snaps through a quick-as-the-eye amber warning to a red stop...
...prostitute on a riverbank. Some small taint of degradation kept clinging to his idea of sex-one of the many dramatic paradoxes in his life. He was a near-alcoholic; yet he pursued his writing craft with monastic austerity. He had the courage to face approaching blindness, eleven eye operations, and his daughter Lucia's madness, but he ran from dogs and thunder. He renounced Roman Catholicism, but he could never rid his mind of the systems of Aquinas and Aristotle. He loathed and left his native land, yet his bitterness was inverted longing. Small wonder that Nora once...
During the next dark decade, Joyce badgered publishers in vain, cadged meals, cheated landlords, begged, scrounged and borrowed, taught English at Berlitz and clerked in a bank, suffered his first eye attacks, trundled his family from city to city, and drank steadily. During visits home, he would stumble to meet Stanislaus, and that sturdy keeper of his brother's conscience would shout: "Do you want to go blind? Do you want to go about with a little...
Staccato (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). With Staccato (John Cassavetes) calling the shots, this musical Eye is tough enough this time to fight his way out of a dangerous doublecross...