Word: idol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHAT DID WE DO WRONG? A ponderous put-down of the contemporary foibles of young and old falls on its face as it peers into the generation gap. Devotees of Paul Ford may be amused by their idol in a hippie getup, but others will consider Wrong? more absurd than theater...
Dancing with Daddy. The Exhibitionist is the story of a beautiful film star-Jet Merry Houseman, whose father is a fading movie idol. The plot is hardly original. Merry is an oversexed girl in search of herself, but she looks mostly in other people's beds. What she finds there is a variety of sexual activity ranging from earnest fornication through onanism, homosexuality, and-since these pursuits are so familiar to fiction nowadays-some rather esoteric variations. The denouement takes place at a masked ball, where the participants shed everything but their masks. And who should end up dancing...
...inning home run into the center-field stands. When the statisticians added up, his Series record came to 27 innings of brilliant pitching, with 14 hits and a thin total of three runs for Bos ton. That was enough to put Bob in the books, tied with another oldtime idol, Christy Mathewson, for winning the most games in a single Series. And it was more than enough to earn Gibson the outstanding-player award, plus the sports car that goes with...
...revenge. Soon after the game, Fenway Park was the scene of a vignette that would have brightened the eyes of any mother whose kiddies hate their homework. While most of the other players were sipping beer in the locker room, there in the batting cage stood Boston's idol, the man they call Yaz-Tremendouski, taking batting practice, while Coach Bobby Doerr called "Keep your hands high! Quick, now! Snap those wrists!" For 30 minutes it continued before Yaztrzemski was sat isfied. "Tomorrow," he said, "I'm gonna get three hits...
...never heard of him , but Mike Douglas, host of the most popular show on daytime TV, is the A11-American Mommy's Boy. Each weekday, more than 6,000,000 housewives in 171 cities set up their ironing boards in front of the TV set to watch their idol; and this in turn has attracted such a crush of advertisers that the 90-minute program this year will bring in $10.5 million in sponsors' fees. While many TV shows have to round up studio audiences off the streets, the Mike Douglas Show claims a 14-month waiting list...