Word: finks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with feathers; he suffered minor burns. Otherwise the combativeness was limited mostly to vigorous flag-waving and the legends blazoned on hand-lettered signs. There were, of course, hyper-hawks galore, toting signs reading "Bomb Haiphong" and "Drop peaceniks on Hanoi." One banner proclaimed: "Ho Chi Minh is a fink-give him the kitchen sink. If that don't settle the score-give him the kitchen door." But there were also pacifists on the sidewalks who carried neither flags nor banners-just flowers...
Vallee's brilliant bumbling, on the other hand, is even better on the wide screen, as when he Freudian slips, "I like the way you thinch, Fink" and intones the college musical lampoon, Grand Old Ivy. For the first time, Hollywood seems to have cracked the Morse code: after appearing in a succession of turkeys-most recently Oh Dad, Poor Dad (TIME, March 3)-Bobby is finally allowed to steal a picture the way he stole the show. He burbles with the irresistible energy of a degenerate Peter Pan as he chants to a mirror, I Believe...
...going to have beauty over the river as well as in the parks," Fink said. "I consider color very nice -- it's an engineering trend growing everywhere...
...Fink's latest experiment is steel-gray Harvard Bridge, which is now receiving a preliminary coat of red-orange. "I'd like to paint it crimson," he said, "but M.I.T. might consider that adding insult to injury. They have never liked the idea of a bridge named after Harvard running right past their doorstep...
...crimson is rejected as too controversial, Fink suggests a Harvard contest to pick a new color. How about fuchsia...