Word: faddist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Health Faddist. The stakeout last week came after four dynamite blasts within two days rocked New York City's Chase Manhattan Bank headquarters, the RCA Building, the new General Motors Corp. offices and the Criminal Courts Building. With New Yorkers on edge and the city's twelve-man bomb squad in a "state of exhaustion," the FBI tailed its suspects to a mid-Manhattan armory where agents witnessed two men place four time bombs in a National Guard truck. Arrested and charged with conspiring to damage Government property were Samuel Melville, 34, a health faddist and sometime plumbing...
Collie's spatial-absolutes represent a marriage of technology and art, but science is clearly the stronger partner. Yet Collie insists that he is no technological faddist catering to a novelty-hungry art public that is ready to pay $1,000 to $3,500 for his floating sculpture. In his obsession with simplicity and freedom of form, he argues that his shapes "derive from Brancusi. If he were alive today, he would have released his Bird in Space and freed the Fish to swim. He simply lacked the technology that we have today. His work implies flight." Collie promises...
...being enjoyed by the Harvard-Radcliffe sect should be placed in its more proper perspective. Bogey has been a byword at Bryn Mawr for years. Bogart Week on the Late Show has always drawn capacity crowds in the TV rooms here, and yet our appreciation is not confined to faddist imitations...
Before the divorce becomes final, husband and wife must meet once more to sort out a tangled income tax report, and of course a Joint 1040 leads smack into the subject of sex. Though already affianced to a socialite food faddist (Diane McBain), hubby chafes when an aging movie actor (Michael Rennie) begins to date his former mate. Everywhere that Mary goes, the ham is close behind. Nelson finally explodes-being the kind of guy, as Lawyer Hiram Sherman quips, "who thinks when he brings a book back to the library, it'll never go out again...
Along the way to the happy ending, several scenes are stolen by a disarming cinemoppet named Claire Wilcox. Claire, 8, plays a food faddist who hates to mix up her victuals. To make a snack, she lines up four plates on the table, puts bread on one, lettuce on another, tuna on a third, mayonnaise on the fourth. Then she starts nibbling from each plate in sequence. "It's a sandwich," she explains, "only the food isn't touching...