Word: hellos
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...weeks preceding the debut of Antony and Cleopatra, Bing worked a 16-hour day instead of his usual 14. He usually started his days with an assault on a pyramid of mail, meanwhile giving orders over his intercom system and fielding rapid-fire phone calls: "Hello. Yes. No. Tomorrow. Fine. Goodbye." Then, dictating memos over his shoulder, he would go off on his rounds, turning up onstage to admonish a stagehand ("Don't smoke on our stage, please"), switching off the lights in sub-basement storage rooms, climbing into the uppermost rafters to check on a special staging effect...
...Hello, Kim? This is Jim," said California's retiring Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike into a phone at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. "Has anyone told you the news?" No one had. But there was no better way for Michigan's Suffragan Bishop C. (for Chauncie) Kilmer Myers, awakened at 3:30 a.m. at his home in Detroit, to learn that he had just been elected Pike's successor...
...corner, a man machinegunned six people wiht "hellos." "Hello," he said, and lightning washed across the sky and the red light is the Lowell House bell tower flared scariet...
...where to walk (glide, but never too close to the tables lest someone see sweat or telltale wrinkles), give them mildly risque parodies of such standards as Let's Do It and breezy between-song patter (says Duddy: "Most singers should not be allowed to ad-lib hello...
...narrator, Brown sounds most at sea whenever he ventures a comment on activities ashore. Like any loquacious neighborhood, hobbyist who has gone overboard for home movies, he mixes obtuse observations of native customs with exuberant how-dy-do's ("Say hello, Lance. Atta baby!") to some of his surfing pals visited along the way. Perhaps wisely, Brown leaves analysis of the surf-cult mystique to seagoing sociologists, but demonstrates quite spiritedly that some of the brave souls mistaken for beachniks are, in fact, converts to a difficult, dangerous and dazzling sport...