Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gandhi off to Delhi's Tihar jail, where thousands of her political opponents were locked up during her 21-month emergency dictatorship, she recited a version of a British show tune: "Wish me luck as you bid me goodbye/ With a cheer, not a tear in your eye/ Give me a smile I can keep all the while I am away...
...Crossing, a square mile of tall, somber pines and rutted dirt roads in western Louisiana, the small clapboard houses are shuttered, watchdogs howl mournfully and people eye strangers suspiciously. "Folks are talking crazy," says a youth. "They're talking about killing people." Declares John Johnson Jr., a black community worker: "There's fear hanging everywhere...
...maneuver him in front of a fully loaded preacher (he escaped the pit of matrimony by the desperate stratagem of summoning Lew Zealand, who had been hanging around backstage waiting for his lucky break, to bring on those tacky and awful boomerang fish). Miss Piggy has a wandering eye, however, and if the week's guest star happens to be a good-looking man, she latches onto him. After dancing the stirring pas de deux from Swine Lake with Rudolph Nureyev, she stalked the poor fellow into a steam bath and drove him forth with his towel askew...
...curtailed. The West Coast version of Stage Door Canteen took place at Cole Porter's house, where "he always had a few soldiers who had no place to go." Bogart did his part in the Coast Guard. Once a week he cruised the coastline off Balboa, keeping an eye peeled for the Japanese. Never have...
...another class of object, a chimera begotten by greed upon insecurity: the expensive reproduction, in a nominally "limited" edition that can actually go as far as 100,000 copies or more. These clones are a strange breed. For the $7,500 Rockefeller's "Rodin" costs, anyone with an eye and some spirit could put together a few handsome original objects by excellent living artists-and have money left over for a week in Paris, spending every day at the Rodin Museum really learning something about a great sculptor...