Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bakery, and five additional hotels. There is talk of constructing a shopping center under a Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome which would be air-conditioned to offset temperatures that reach 125°. Another problem to be overcome is the water shortage. Yehoshua Shapiro, the Caravan Hotel manager, who wears a jacket, tie and cuff links in spite of the heat, says: "We get our water by tank truck from a military desalination plant down the road. If the tanker breaks down, we're in trouble." Even so, Shapiro intends to settle permanently in Sharm el Sheikh. So do many...
...Follies' stylistic inventiveness. There is less unanimity of feeling about the theme. Some ?including TIME'S T.E. Kalem?found in it Proustian resonances. Some contend that James Goldman, whose screenplay for The Lion in Winter won a 1968 Oscar, has supplied less of a book than a book jacket. For Phyllis, he wrote some pseudo-sophisticated, Manhattanite monologues that are better read than said...
...Burn the jacket, tear off the covers, excommunicate the author, and erase every proper noun, a book about Chicago remains, beyond any mistaking, a book about Chicago. The essential juices of the place somehow force any author to write with a special accent about the only city on earth where the likes ol Big Bill Thompson and Al Capone could coexist as civic leaders. In Chicago, there is indeed a certain interchangeability between politics and other lines of work. "The Hawk," Mike Royko writes, "was the outside lookout man at a bookie joint. Then his eyes got weak...
...take up to 20 minutes, and a filmed interview can take even longer to assemble if the editor is trying to splice a single answer from two different parts of the film. A typical problem complicating such splicing: between questions, the interviewee may light a cigarette or unbutton his jacket, producing an audience-jarring "jump cut" if the splice is made. The solution is to switch to a "cutaway" in between, generally a reaction shot of the correspondent...
According to Doubleday and Fawcett, the principal publishers, the readership for such romances consists mostly of women looking for nonelectronic escape: teen agers, housewives, travelers and other solitary people. Literary reviews are rare and have little influence. What sells is the author's name on the jacket and that illustration showing a girl and a castle...