Word: hook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...calls him, letting his listeners in on both ends of some pretty fascinating conversations. His midnight to 6 a.m. program is heard from San Francisco to the Canadian border and as far west as New Zealand, and it has made such a hit with listeners that KEWB hopes to hook up with a sister station in Los Angeles to give Jackson the entire West for an audience. Comedian Mort Sahl, who has rigged up a special antenna in his backyard in Los Angeles in order to receive Jackson, calls him "the all-night psychiatrist." Make Love Now. Jackson stays...
...samurai sells his sword to the first warlord, promptly betrays him to the second. Three men dead. Then he betrays the second to the first. Nine men dead. Then he provokes both sides to a pitched battle. Twenty or 30 men dead and the town in ruins. By hook or crook, trick or treat, the samurai assists the slaughter until, hilariously or horribly, everybody has eliminated everybody. With a grunt of solid satisfaction, the hero survevs the vacant village and declares: "Now we'll have a little quiet in this town." At this point, many customers will be wondering...
...hard not to admire Communist Spy Robert Soblen: for almost three months, by hook, crook and desperate deed, he had mocked the laws and made monkeys out of the lawmen of three anti-Communist nations. Last week he spectacularly did it again...
...even better writing about literature. He ticks off one of Broadway's more annoying current mannerisms: "Just name your problem, sit back, and let love solve it: race prejudice, foreign relations -even Job reeling beneath the unkind attentions of a dubious Yale God gets off the hook at the end through Love, which has now replaced the third-act marines of a simpler time." And in a piece lamenting a supposed decline in satire, he proposes an excellent canon for satirists in an age that has gone mushy with tolerance: "As long as any group within the society deliberately...
...Orient Express, beloved by mystery writers, has been curtailed because of international red tape and visa requirements, the luxury train still belongs to the European way of life. Latest and best is West Germany's sleek new Rheingold Express, which clicks along at 100 m.p.h. between Basel and Hook of Holland. Its six cars offer the latest in air-conditioned high living-roomy six-seat compartments, contoured reclining chairs, a glass-walled observation car for Rhineland castle watching, cocktail lounge and gourmet restaurant, plus telephone service and a trilingual secretary for eager businessmen...