Word: lock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PERELMAN'S subjects range from reminiscences of the Marx Brothers to an encounter with a singing lady dentist who plants a radio transmitter in his incisor and calls him up when she hears him eating a forbidden bagel ("Lock Lips-Monkey-shines in the Bridgework"). Very rarely does he have any real satiric intentions. In one piece, though, "Let a Snarl Be Your Umbrella," there is a hint of very good-natured satire. Perelman finds himself ignored, insulted, and humiliated by a series of British clerks, in what appears to be a conspiracy to make the customer suffer. He discovers...
...Roth, is the front runner. Opposing him for the seat being relinquished by retiring Republican Senator John J. Williams is Democrat Jacob W. Zimmerman. Zimmerman is a strong opponent of the war and favors limiting the war-making powers of the President. In a state which is owned lock, stock and barrel by the Duponts and which has a sizeable group of Wallace supporters, Zimmerman is clearly the underdog...
...University police, not having enough evidence to arrest the suspect for larceny or for trespassing (no trespassing warnings are posted in House courtyards), threatened to lock him up if he was ever seen again on Harvard property...
...curb auto thefts, the New York legislature passed a law forbidding motorists to leave keys in the ignition locks of unattended cars. As a result, Chester Gorski of Rome, N.Y. has been ordered to pay $33,862 in damages because his stolen car was involved in a fatal collision. The plaintiff, whose wife was killed in the crash, had a persuasive witness-the car thief. Donald Smith, 18, who is now in jail as a youthful offender, testified that he downed 18 beers at a firemen's carnival, jumped into Gorski's car, found the key dangling from...
Married. Christopher Plummer, 40, Canadian actor (The Royal Hunt of the Sun); and Elaine Taylor, 24, British actress whom he met while filming Lock Up Your Daughters!; he for the third time; in Montreal...