Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knew what he was talking about. In the inner circle that rules the Senate, Styles Bridges was the innermost man, the dean of Senate Republicans, and one of the savviest politicians in the upper chamber. He was a poor speaker, and his name was never attached to any historic item of legislation. Yet last week, when Bridges died of complications following a heart attack, the Senate lost one of its most influential members...
Vanishing American. Despite such slips, Lolly's habitual double-checking usually ensures that the kernel at the heart of the item is correct-though the details may be a little mixed. In rumor-ridden Hollywood she is respected for refusing to print a rumor if she gets a flat denial-a courtesy that not all columnists can afford. She usually punishes those who offend her by keeping them out of her column rather than lambasting them in it. But her wrath, when aroused, has always been formidable. When Producer Nunnally Johnson outraged her dignity, Lolly vented her spleen...
...Comanches. (Actually, Big John does the job by himself. Stu is like the human figure beside the geography-book whale; he just sort of stands there to show how big Big John really is.) But in this western the bald theme matters less than the hairy variations. Item: the big bold badman (Lee Marvin), when he wants a shot of redeye, does not tear the cork out with his stubby green teeth-a routine every Hollywood heavy learns in his first villain lesson. Nosirree, he whacks the bottom of the bottle with the flat of his hand and blasts...
There is a surprising amount of good poetry, most of it-like the prose-in conventional forms. New poets like X. J. Kennedy, Daniel J. Langton, James Wright, established poets like Donald Davie, Howard Nemerov, Louis Simpson are well represented by well-wrought verse. One newsworthy item (in Evergreen Review): a strong anti-oppression poem by jailed Soviet Poet Yesenin-Volpin, natural son of the Yesenin who was one of Isadora Duncan's lovers...
Coffee, which accounted for 19% of their total sales last year, is still the vending operators' most profitable item, and some of them occasionally wonder why they ever pushed on into food vending. Says Wolff: "Installing a coffee machine is a fairly simple operation, but when you start vending rolls to go with the coffee, you are already in trouble." Most vendors, however, believe that solving the costly problems of hot food selling is only a matter of time. Wolff's Interstate is currently testing a quick-cook process designed to heat a complete frozen meal...