Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concoct American-sounding rationalizations for his new tactics: "You have to look out for yourself in this world. You can't afford to be human." Soon Stavros abandons his prospective bride, a gentle girl whom he warns, "For your own happiness, don't trust me." Then, in a finishing kick of debased Algerism, he earns his passage to America as a gigolo and enters the country illegally with a group of indentured shoeshine boys. He has alienated all sympathy when, upon landing in New York harbor, he kisses the dock; one almost wishes that he would get a sliver...
...true that you forced a Senate page named Boyd Richie to deduct $50 per month from his salary and kick it back to you in order that you could help Walter J. Stewart along...
Russia is forever exhorting small, underdeveloped countries to rise up and seize foreign holdings on their territory -naturally referring only to properties of the "imperialist" West. Last week Moscow found itself on the receiving end of the confiscation kick, target of a brash grab by its defiant onetime Communist ally-tiny Albania...
...attention. "It has to be all things to all persons," he confessed. "Of course, it cannot do this when it comes to being all things to traditionalists and iconoclasts. But if you are very cunning you get as far away from extremists as you possibly can because they kick harder." He also had something to say about Beatlemania: "I really could not care less how much noise people make singing and dancing. The noise I object to is people righting and stealing. It seems to me that these blokes are helping people to enjoy themselves, and that is far better...
...fans, New York-born Bennett is a regular Dr. Feelgood - and Tony knows the reason why. "I have a feel for people," he says earnestly. "I want people to like me, and I get a kick out of making them happy." At concerts, he dispenses his Feelgood formula so lavishly that by the time the night is 20 songs old, his coat and tie lie crumpled on the stage; when the curtain falls, Tony answers the storm of applause with grins and salutes and bold, looping autographs for the fans to save forever. Last week he dashed into Columbia Records...