Word: hyperthyroidal
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AMID THE death motorcycles, the cross-bow slayings, the killer umbrellas and helicopter spearings in this, the latest chronicle of Her Majesty's most potent secret agent, there is a strange poignancy. Bond films have been appearing regularly for about two decades now, and almost because of the hyperthyroid nature of the adventures, they have increasingly begun to seem like parodies--gimpy versions of the real thing. Roger Moore, the man with the cement face, is getting on in years; and the idea that his homeland, leading candidate as successor to Turkey as the sick man of Europe, could muster...
PERHAPS, ALSO, THE Reagan plan will also set off a round of consumer spending that will do nothing but increase inflationary pressures--a sort of hyperthyroid version of the Reagan inaugural bash. One group guaranteed better times ahead under the Reagan years are the defense contractors, who will, as they did in the 1960s, absorb absurdly wasteful amounts of money. In return for this windfall, the nation will receive little: no great number of jobs because defense spending is a notoriously ineffecient way to create employment; no economic benefit because defense spending is non-productive and inflationary; and no peace...
That's it. That's all. Altered States does not fail for lack of bold intentions. But Altered States does fail--completely. This quick tour of the latest in cocktail party theorizing, spoken entirely in psychobabble (subtitles not provided), matches two of the film industry's most hyperthyroid artists, director Ken Russell and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky; their collaboration produces a hysterically pretentious and ludicrously contrived hoax which is apparently cleaning up in its opening run in New York. Vel, vat haf ve heere? (In fairness, the Viennese psychiatrist is probably the only cliche this film avoids...
Around the Hot Stove League, there are those who maintain that the Yankees would not be baseball's champions if New York City's newspapers had been publishing since last August. The town's hyperthyroid sportswriters, so the theory goes, would have stirred up another feud between Thurman Munson and Reggie Jackson, or some other duo of dueling Yanks, that might have cost the team its title. The Giants, Jets, Knicks, Nets, Islanders and Rangers will not get the chance to test that hypothesis. If all goes as expected, the city's strike-silenced dailies will...
...hyperthyroid auction era arrived in 1972, when Avon Books spent $1 million for Thomas Harris' I'm Okay, You 're Okay. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's All the President's Men sold for $1 million in 1974; two years later their The Final Days fetched $1,550,000. Other notable $1 million-plus books include Erich Segal's Oliver's Story ($1,410,000), E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime ($1,850,000), Dorothy Uhnak's The Investigation ($1,595,000), William Safire's Full Disclosure ($1,375,000) and McCullough's phenomenal The Thorn Birds, which nearly broke...