Word: laing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Klein has lately reconciled himself to doing without the skindiving, swimming, and warm weather he used to enjoy near his home at La Jolla. Klein and his wife Marjorie have two married daughters. He reads newspapers and periodicals, but seldom has time for books. He views the world through habitually squinted eyes and speaks so softly that reporters must strain to hear him. He wept openly after Nixon's 1960 defeat and did so again, perhaps for different reasons, after Nixon's famous "last press conference" following the California gubernatorial election of 1962. With newsmen, he has preserved...
There are two sets of pilots flying the Biafra run, one English-speaking and the other French, and they are carefully segregated. The English-speaking flyers are housed in the dilapidated, mosquito-ridden Hôtel de la Rèsidence, run by a waspish French brunette named Jackie, whose sole virtue seems to be that she is able to count in English. Eighteen of the pilots are Rhodesian and South African, all clad in the uniform of the British colonial in Africa: highly polished shoes, long socks, neatly pressed shorts and starched bush jackets. Carefully holding themselves apart...
...Panorama. In a way, though, The Beatles is too much a virtuoso display of the quartet's versatility. From the ricky-tick Honey Pie to the West Indian Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da to the schmaltzy Good Night, a sweeping panorama of pop genres unfolds in parodies, pastiches, takeoffs and put-ons. The boys even spoof themselves. George Harrison's Savoy Truffle contains a cross reference to Lennon and Mc Cartney's Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. In Rocky Raccoon, Paul McCartney imitates successfully and amusingly the nasal delivery of Bob Dylan. The lyric...
...recalls the days when as a gawky youngster in Rayville, La., he spent long hours in his backyard shooting a small rubber ball through a bottomless wash bucket. He was always dreaming of his idols, Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain, and today he talks of little but how "great, just great" it is to be playing against them...
...largely for that reason, Hayes says, that he chose to turn pro right away rather than mark time by playing on the U.S. Olympic basketball team. Besides, as a family man who now lives in fashionable La Jolla, Calif., with his wife Erna (the Middle E) and his year-old son Elvin Jr. (the Little E), the Big E had to think about Green Power-that $400,000 four-year contract he signed with the Rockets...