Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the burglary business will pick up, we think. After all, the setting does look like the Gay Nineties, the heroes are whisking between London and Paris, and we know the industrial revolution has left a lot of nouveau riche loot lying around. Yet Belmondo keeps running into pushovers--sycophantic social climbers and corrupt concubines--and it looks as though all of Paris has conspired to make his capers unchallenging. After a half-a-film full of perfunctory purloining, he hopes to gain fresh inspiration from a legendary thief, Cannonier, recently released from Devil's Island. But Cannonier has gone...
...adults and children alike. Excessive, indiscriminate tippling eventually led to the passage of Prohibition, which the authors argue set back the development of American wine. Yet the nation's most famous glutton spurned ardent spirits for orange juice and lemon pop. Tales of Diamond Jim Brady's Gay Nineties gorging at Delmonico's in New York are not only legendary but hard to believe. Is it possible that one man could have eaten at one sitting the following: two to three dozen giant oysters, half a dozen crabs, two bowls of green turtle soup, six lobsters...
...front page article by Gay W. Seidman, Friday Nov. 12, The Crimson announced that the University had decided to include abortions in the Student Health Care Plan. The article said that under the new policy, University Health Services will refund the portion of the fee that goes toward non-therapeutic abortions to students who oppose such voluntary abortions...
...Hughes sane or not? This may never be known for certain, but old stories keep cropping up. In 1972, Robert Maheu, a top Hughes administrator who had been fired, told the Securities and Exchange Commission that Frank William Gay, the ranking Hughes insider, had approached him in the late 1960s to discuss the possibility of having Hughes declared mentally incompetent. It was precisely the fear that a judge might question his mental competence that caused Hughes to go to any length, even risking his fortune, to avoid appearing in court...
Currently, the Hughes empire is being run largely by three longtime Hughes associates: Bill Gay, Nadine Henley and Chester Davis. Emerging as a power is Will Lummis, Hughes' 47-year-old nephew, who is a Houston lawyer. He was named Summa's board chairman last August in a deal to avoid conflict between Hughes' Houston heirs and the ruling triumvirate at Summa. But the relationship is showing signs of strain. Recently, Lummis began and ended a board meeting before Davis arrived...