Word: henly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reaction among farmers was exemplified in a cartoon by E.A. Harris, which showed a startled rooster rather lamely explaining to a quizzical hen"Nobody told me about Daylight Saving!" Attendance at some churches in New York City was off. Explained the Rev. Frank Walinski of St. Peter's Lutheran Church: "If you want a personal opinion, it's hard as hell to get up in the morning." In Baltimore, most of the prominently placed public clocks were not turned ahead immediately; because their lights had been turned off to conserve energy, the clocks were unreadable in the morning...
...there you have it, or so Lelouch would have it, society has been effeminized. The intellectuals are dainty dried up men whose sterile concepts mark a lack of virility. And the bourgeoisie--like the manager of Van Cleef's who gets twitchy and makes clucking noises like a mother hen before rich customers--are a lost cause...
...raspy voice shatters the static, like the roar of a Mack truck rolling by a Volkswagen: "Breaker, break to any westbound diesel. Is the chicken coop open up ahead?" The answer crackles back from the cab of an 18-wheeler lumbering across Indiana: "It's open and the hen is inside the little white church...
...grubby raincoat, was Falk's own stroke. The coat is his, bought in New York for a European trip years ago and stuffed away in a trunk until he fished it out to wear over the studio wardrobe's baggy brown suit. Falk worries like a mother hen over the coat's progressing disintegration, but he refuses to exchange it for a duplicate aged and soiled by the studio, clinging to the original like an identity blanket. Says a crew member: "The minute he puts that raincoat on, he becomes Columbo...
...parter on alcoholism, and in future will confront the Supreme Court's ruling on pornography (as it applies to a fund-raising show for Maude's local library). Later in the season Maude will even have a face-lifting, after conceding that she feels "like an old hen with a turkey's neck and crow's-feet-I could be the centerfold for the Audubon Society." Her on-camera rejuvenation will be accomplished with tape and makeup, but the idea for the show came from Bea Arthur herself, who plans to have the real thing during...