Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Old Vienna, Alex King is too savvy not to know that his brand of nonconformity is a hotter commercial item right now than togetherness. Before Mine Enemy grows weeks older (it just appeared in a paperback edition), the royalties from that book alone will cross the $100,000 mark. The third volume of King's memoirs is under way, and will contain no anecdotes ("It is about me"). Perhaps he has been wounded by a recent sally. "I notice," said a fellow wit, "that you are not going to ruin your autobiography by putting your life into...
...Dandy Little Giant Nervous Breakdown Avoider," a mail-answering form full of prefab messages such as "Congratulations," "Get well soon," "Let's both forget it," and "You paid me the highest compliment a woman ever paid a man, but I am not worthy of your love." That last item is frequently checked, for Hoffman is fond of women, including girls of all wages. His vision being what it is, he is not choosy. A Hollywood friend says: "If Irving ever regained his eyesight and saw some of those girls, he'd commit suicide...
...settle on the major points at issue. Defense attorneys, for example, disagreed on what percentage of the market their clients held. Judge Savage noted that a percentage point either way would make little difference. "We agreed on 65%," said one defense attorney, "and went on to the next item...
...equally useful to commercial carriers. But Congress would not okay appropriations for such a plane until MATS was no longer directly competitive with the private airlines. It was almost impossible for MATS to get any new equipment of any kind. Last year the House shot down a $66 million item that MATS tried to tack on its budget for the purchase of ten DC-8 jets...
Shane, the greatest Western ever made in the opinion of many of the most sophisticated aficionados of the shoot-em-up school, sashayed into the Brattle Sunday for a week's stay. This item, from which some scholars have traced the rise of the Western to its current dominance of the American intellectual scene (others, it must be admitted, feel that the Western as we know it today is a subtle attempt to blend Humphrey Bogart with the American Tradition) has Alan Ladd, Van Heflin, Jean Arthur and Brandon DeWilde in the starring roles...