Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good old days when a painting was addressed to the eye instead of to the ear, when it spoke for itself and needed no explanation. Now vision is verbalized, and the honest artist is out of fashion-and out of luck. I might suggest that $30,000 for a mess of refuse from the town dump is a high price to pay for jargon. Happily, the wheel will turn...
...appeared in earlier novels), an O'Hara-like man who has been a reporter and pressagent and who, in middle age, is a successful novelist. In the first volume, The Girl on the Baggage Truck, he is a major character, a young publicity man who avoids, mostly by luck, becoming the pet poodle of an aging actress. Malloy is an observer in the next book, Imagine Kissing Pete, concerning an adulterous marriage that worked better than expected. There is a hint in this one of sentimentality, a quality to which the 20th century reacts as the 19th...
Before the coin toss, co-announcer Bob Neal, galavanting over the gridiron in a baggy reccoon coat, introduced the starting line-ups on a hook-up that included the 40,000 at Soldiers Field. He belted each player on the shoulder and yelled "Good luck, boy," as each starter in turn smirked at the red light...
...Missouri, Representative Charlie Brown, who managed Stu Symington's unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, had no better luck with his own campaign for reelection. The winner: Republican Durward G. Hall, a handsome, conservative surgeon who. in the Ozark phrase, is a "gravel bar speaker...
Engel's luck is not always good. In many frames the camera cannot seem to find the speaker, and when it does cannot focus on his face. To give his picture a life like look, Engel uses no light except sunlight, so the film is sometimes muzzy sometimes (after a sudden change of sky) faulted with flare. Much of the time the actors' voices, picked up on the spot by a tape recorder, are muffled diffuse interrupted by bed squeaks, foot scrapes, street noises. But the sound is the sound the rooms have the look, the camera shares...