Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cliffie who had been lost in her own eyes found a sharer in a whole new vision. "The day I got back," she remembered. "I walked down to the Yard and sat on the steps of Widener. It was the first warm day in such a long time. There was a boy sitting near me dressed in corduroys. He had a wise old face and the kind of arm you knew-well, you knew could cradle the head of a beloved as well as fill out income tax forms. We started talking...
...Dick Dyer, and credit goes to him for the worst "pruf hacks" (proofreading errors) of the decade. On one occasion Dyer, offended by the euphonics of Agamemnon's name, proceeded to alter it to "Agoddammit." Likewise, a bit of theological profundity on the merits of the Christian faith lost its effort in no small degree when the head above it appeared proclaiming "Christianity: A Positive Farce...
Nevertheless. the militarized sheet did improve and as a connecting link between 1943 and the post-war Crime . it was well worth the money it lost in three years of publication...
...first episode, Metzengerstein, is something of a family affair: Jane Fonda, under the direction of her husband Vadim, dashes about the medieval countryside in none too maidenly pursuit of her brother Peter, who looks lost with out his Harley-Davidson. Peter and Jane play the sole descendants of two feuding families, a fact that only adds zest to Jane's passion. In a singular frenzy, she burns down Peter's stable while Peter is still inside trying to save his favorite horse. The horse lives, but Peter perishes. Unfazed, Jane gets hung up on his black stallion...
...beers like leaves. He put down a pound only and shoved the rest back in some pocket. The pain had been worse than this, a lot worse." Julian is on his way to see his mistress-and that fact is another kind of bad joke. She is a simple, lost, physical girl still in her teens, with no past herself and, so far, little sign of a future. Julian has a wife, not a bad woman or a good one, but disease has pared away his talent for complication; he can no longer thread through the subtle caterings and cozenings...