Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parseghian must have been a beautiful baby. His father named him after a mythological Armenian king named "Ara the Beautiful," and his mother kept him in dresses until he was six. As soon as he graduated to pants, he started sneaking off to play tackle football with the older kids in Akron, and the only way mom could get him home was to come after him with the sawed-off broomstick she used to stir the family wash. As an eighth-grader, Ara was everybody's nomination for Toughest Kid in school?even the Board of Education's. "They were...
...neither by temperament, background nor age does Agostini count himself among pop artists. At 51, he can remember working for the WPA and showing on Manhattan's 10th Street when it was still the center of the avantgarde. Brought up as a poor Hell's Kitchen kid, he recalls selling his early drawings to the sisters at parochial school when he was eleven. His later friends were abstract expressionists of a generation older than pop: Kline, De Kooning and Marca-Relli. Pepperonis & Provolones. In his 30s and 40s Agostini began making commercial sculpture. He made plaster mannequins...
...kid hangs up his stocking at Christmas," said Liston, "and he has to wait until he wakes up in the morning to see what he got. Clay is like that kid. He'll know what happened when he wakes up." Bookmakers agreed: they installed Liston as a 1-2 favorite to become the second man in history (the other: Floyd Patterson) to regain the heavyweight championship...
That very variety, as much as anything else, also characterizes Townes. Now provost of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he might well be teaching in the humanities rather than science. He was a whiz kid at Furman University in Greenville, S.C., where he spent much of his time studying languages. He still has some working competence in French, German, Spanish, Greek, Russian and Latin. But eventually he settled for science. Now, even the demands of his administrative job and his work in the laboratory must share time with mountain climbing, skindiving, and the raising of African violets...
...picture." Amidst sumptuous settings, supposedly inhabited by the haut monde of San Francisco, Heroine Susan Hayward plays a world-famous "sculptor, pagan, alley-cat" who detests her domineering mother (Davis), betrays her war-hero husband, unwittingly snares a gigolo with her daughter until one calamitous night when the kid picks up a chisel and . . . What follows is a custody battle, some gamy dialogue, and numerous untidy revelations, none of them very interesting. "With you," observes one of Susan's playmates, "art and sex go hand in hand." Maybe so. But in movies like Where Love Has Gone, they efficiently...