Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lola Albright, a 37-year-old blonde known chiefly for having played Peter Gunn's girl friend on TV, and a performance almost as good by Marlowe, a 23-year-old TV actor. They play their parts-she has had three bad marriages and knows the wild luck of her new affair; he thinks this sort of thing will continue for the rest of his life. The cardboard plot grinds on to the boy's inevitable discovery of what his true love does for a living. When they break up, her grief is touching...
...Indo-Chinese Peninsula, South Viet Nam is washed by 900 miles of the South China Sea. Behind the sandy dunes of the north are tiers of flat plains leading back to the highlands where 300,000 Moi hut dwellers search the thick forests for white elephants as good-luck charms. In the south are the hard-working Annamese peasants, squatting under conical hats of palm leaves in the brimming Mekong Delta marshes to plant the rice that is South Viet Nam's chief source of sustenance and a major export. The delta's deep black soil is some...
...Mullaney, a sailor and a Southerner (Southerners used to be hilarious); and Jim Hutton. a missile scientist (scientists never were very funny, but Hutton is also a man in love, and thus hilarious). The three of them decide to become wealthy at a Venice casino, using as their good-luck talisman a ship-based, missile-tracking electronic computer named...
Settlement by Handshake. So entrenched are relationships in the trade that most transactions are based on simple confidence. Deals involving hundreds of stones are sealed without a count by a handshake and the binding Yiddish phrase: Mazel und brocket (Good luck and blessings) that is used by Jewish and non-Jewish dealers alike the world over...
Like a Picnic. Gut-fighting on the editorial page has largely passed from vogue. Today, many U.S. editorial cartoonists treat their cartoons merely as squiggles to relieve the boredom of the editorial page, end up boring their readers with such stereotyped figures as Uncle Sam, Justice and Lady Luck, such stock targets as drunken driving, Soviet Russia and unscrupulous landlords. To cover their own inadequacies, they often over-label until the reader misses the point for the paragraphs. "There are little figures running around labeled 'Administration,' " says the London Evening Standard's Vicky, "and if they draw...