Word: jokers
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...would sleep more if you could. I've never met an officer who felt he had chosen the right career; for the crew, it's just wage-slavery. Hours on end I've looked into the wake, occasionally thinking but mostly glad for the hypnosis: what some joker once called "the romance of the deep." Inevitably, a college "kid" or a "young blood" becomes a mascot, especially on a freighter with a small crew, about 60 all told. (The United States would carry over 1200 in crew though it never sails with all hands.) And then, immediately, you begin...
...Catholic charities. They have four children. The oldest, Anthony, is a student at Harvard Law. Gradually, over the years, whatever there was of the man behind the image of Bob Hope has disappeared. Hope has always insisted that the brittle, wisecracking, naive, play-it-loose, quick-lipped, harmlessly leering joker-the fellow who has been delivering all those after-dinner gags all these years-is the real Bob Hope. The audience before him is a blank wall, against which Hope tosses jokes that bounce and glitter for a second, then are forgotten. He has never wanted to go deeper, into...
...observation of the bedroom from the living room; this elaborate peephole was covered by a picture of Buddha when not in use. "That was installed by an old eccentric who used to own this place," Ward said. "I'm going to have it filled in." An elaborate practical joker, Ward often put a dog collar around Christine's neck and led her around London on a leash. Some times Christine received guests wearing nothing but skintight blue jeans, once gave a party at which all the guests sat drinking champagne in her bathroom...
...instinct for constructiveness, conflicting with the destructive forces around him." But his search for motion-picture reality is earnest: he built miles of roads in Ceylon while making River Kwai, hired 16 elephants to haul the 30,000 cu. ft. of timber used to build the bridge. "One Hollywood joker," says Spiegel, "said that 'If you like Palm Springs, you'll love Lawrence,' but the point is that Lawrence was great largely because it was obviously not made in Palm Springs." To ease the tensions inherent in making Lawrence in Arab Jordan, Spiegel, who is Jewish, bearded...
Premiere (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A Bronx delicatessen owner (Howard Morris) searches for his long-lost joker of a brother (Louis Nye) in "This Will Kill...