Word: hams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city's electricity, gas and telephones were knocked out. Rescue workers and airmen from Eielson Air Force Base relied upon radio communications -aided by Fairbanks' numerous "ham" operators. Some 7,000 victims were evacuated to the higher ground of the University of Alaska five miles away. About 2,500 were shuttled by air to Anchorage 260 miles to the south. Hundreds of huskies and other breeds kept by dog-loving Alaskans, left to survive on their own, raised an eerie cacophony of howls through the nights. As the dogs grew hungrier, humans had to fight them off with...
Enter Laughing. Carl Reiner's autobiographical novel about a stage-struck Jewish boy's first taste of ham was one of the delights of Broadway in 1963, thanks to Joseph Stein's knowing dramatization and to a winning performance by Alan Arkin as the fumbling hero. Now Reiner has directed a film version that sticks closely to the words of the play but destroys much of its sly insight into the dawning of awareness in darkest Bronx...
...other soloists. Freshman phenomenon David Ripley acquitted the part of Don Fernando valiantly but seemed to be worrying too much about getting all the notes to do anything with them. Gregory Sandow as Rocco was well, embarrassing. Sandow is one of those rare examples of a ham with stage fright. His singing is at once precious and stiff. His main problem is that he tries too hard, and his efforts to be expressive lead him to forcing and frequent lapses of taste...
...Oral Roberts University, whose philosophy of education is "to develop the mind, the body-and the soul." Set on a 450-acre campus in suburban Tulsa, the modernistic school already has an enrollment of 546 students, mostly children of Oral Roberts' "Pentecostal Holiness" followers. And Gra ham predicted a vast spread of religious education in the U.S., with O.R.U. blazing the path, then thundered: "If this institution ever moves away from faith in the Bible and the word of God, then let us pronounce a curse on it." "Amen," roared the crowd...
...patriarch painter. Wives, models and mistresses ("Augustus's paintings walked about") shuttled to and fro in various states of concubinage. Pooh-bahs of the literati strutted through the rooms. Nicolette recalls William Butler Yeats as a "Sacred Great Man" revered for his poetry, but also as a ham self-consciously impersonating his own image. T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) lost his mythological status because of the "cringing, obsequious" way he called Augustus John "Master." Besides, after he bragged to the children that he lived on a daily handful of raisins, Lawrence's icebox was discovered to be stuffed...