Word: hokiness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purpose of attending his first one-man art show, the trip from his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., to Paris is a long one for a man of 75 to make alone. So Jovian Pornographer Henry Miller (Tropic of Capricorn) will take along a traveling companion-Jazz Singer Hoki Tokuda, 29, who met him at the pingpong table 18 months ago, and will become the fifth Mrs. Miller in time for the journey. Though he is sanguine enough about the marriage, Henry has the yips about his untutored abstract watercolors, which have taken up so much of his time...
...maybe they were rereading those grand old boys' books, Baseball Joe and Double Curve Dan. The team is in a losing streak-disaster after disaster. Then, all of a sudden, comes that magical day when everyone has springs in his legs and all the bats are made of hoki-moki wood, and the ball sprouts long ears and a cottontail...