Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HELLO DOLLY! Cast as a matchmaker, Carol Channing dangles her gay, carrot-topped self in front of a stuffy moneybags (David Burns) who is slow off the mark. Gower Champion's dancers set a brisk pace for the chase...
HELLO, DOLLY! Cast as a matchmaker, Carol Channing dangles her gay, carrot-topped self in front of a stuffy moneybags (David Burns) who is slow off the mark. Gower Champion's dancers set a brisk pace for the chase...
...hand, and half of Paris gaily climbed into cars and headed out of the city for three days in the country. Meanwhile, at about the same time, a patient at the Cochin Hospital happily climbed into his car and headed for home. Half of Paris, no longer gay, sat and steamed until he got there. Charles de Gaulle, 73, recovered from his operation, was returning from the Left Bank hospital to the Right Bank Elysee Palace, and the police had thoughtfully blocked off all streets along the route. He made it in six minutes flat; the traffic jam took hours...
Tragic Grace. The gay and artless sketches (with a lifetime of craft behind each deceptively negligent line) have a heartbreaking quality when the reader recalls that these glittering trivia were cut and polished by a man soon to take his own life. So the reader searches for a clue to the tragic flaw in a nature that seemed all confidence and gallantry, and finds it in a pride so vast that it demanded others live according to Hemingway's own stern and complicated code (even when they could not know the rules), a pride so touchy that it could...
Eatherly never dropped a bomb in World War II. He served Stateside until his 509th Composite Group was picked for the atomic raids. He was assigned to be weather scout on the Hiroshima run. He checked the visibility over Hiroshima, then radioed the go-ahead to the Enola Gay, carrying the bomb. Returning to base without seeing the explosion, Eatherly was virtually ignored, while the crew of the Enola Gay got all the glory...