Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What a circus! And all to help actors in trouble. For the Union des Artistes in Paris, Actress Elsa Martinelli, wearing black opera hose, ran a couple of baby chimps through their paces. Dressed up as a bunny, Singer Jane Birkin popped out of a cake and walked a tightrope. The hit of the evening was a pie-throwing skit written by Director Claude Chabrol and starring Actor Marcello Mastroianni. Marcello then scrubbed himself down and returned for the 3 a.m. finale when the whole company dished up a giant vat of steaming spaghetti for the audience...
...waited 20 minutes in -25° weather before the Aeroflot crew arrived and unlocked the plane. "It had been sitting on the freezing runway all night," Shaw recalls. "The temperature inside was about 20 below, and there were thick icicles inside the door. Finally a crewman hauled aboard a hose from the engine-warmup truck and began blasting hot air straight into the cabin. It was rough, but it worked-a bit like Siberia itself." Our story was written by Contributing Editor Marguerite Johnson, who in 1970 saw the region from a somewhat different perspective: a coach window...
Trouble is, Humbard seldom turns a profit. Earnings from the girdle company have gone flabby ("Panty hose killed us," explains Humbard), and Mackinac College has attracted only 150 students for its 700 places. Nearly all of Humbard's available revenues go into buying more television time...
...bludgeon murder of a 15-year-old Brooklyn girl, eleven of the arresting detectives were given $50 bonds by a grateful neighborhood association. Few, including the jury, paid any attention to Williams' claim that his confession came after he had been beaten with "a blackjack, a rubber hose and a club" and burned with "lighted cigarettes and cigars." Sentenced to death, Williams was held in jail for 16 years before a federal court of appeals ruled that his confession had been coerced. Since then he has been fighting to recover damages for his years of imprisonment. (He once came...
Many Czechs, for example, seldom take a holiday elsewhere in Eastern Europe without first stocking up on home-produced articles: textiles, sunglasses and playing cards for Rumania; shirts, shoes, socks and blue jeans for the Soviet Union; fruits for East Germany; bras, corsets and panty hose for Hungary; shoes, textiles and auto parts for Bulgaria. The enterprising Czech visitor either sells the articles for local currency or barters them for liquor in Rumania, coffee, vodka, car parts and a portable color-TV set in the Soviet Union, salami in Hungary, and curtain material in East Germany-all of which...