Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Funk made the entire nation self-conscious about its vocabulary. For 20 years he turned out a monthly column on vocabulary building for the Reader's Digest, and he wrote innumerable books: 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary, 25 Magic Steps to Word Power. No pedant, he praised Walter Winchell for adding phffft to the language, and H. L. Mencken for contributing booboisie. "Simple and clear expression," he said, "is usually the difference between a sizzle and a fizzle...
Four times last year, Bret broke the magic 2-min. mark for the mile. He won 24 races and $173,298, became the first two-year-old ever voted Harness Horse of the Year. Owner Downing recently turned down an offer of $850,000 for Bret. "If I took the money," he explained, "I might blow it all on some silly mining stock. Then where would I be?" As it is, the pickings are nothing to complain about. Bret's victory in the Matron Stake was worth $10,717, bringing his winnings so far this year...
...classic Bolivian happening, part brute force and part black magic, asking more questions than it answered! A sea of gold braid, army olive and air-force blue swept silently out of the President's office, down one flight of stairs, and swirled around a small table bearing a crucifix. There, as his colleagues looked on, Air Force General Rene Barrientos solemnly swore in Army General Alfredo Ovando Candia as his co-President of Bolivia's ruling junta. Ovando, Barrientos dryly observed, came "from the very entrails of the army" and was a man worthy of his new position...
Marisol multiplies throughout her recently finished The Party, a group of 15 figures frozen in an elegant trance as if they were creatures in a dollhouse awaiting the touch of a magic wand to bring them to life. As their fairy godmother, Marisol makes them in her own image. She juxtaposes two-and three-dimensional images, real glasses with the painted tux of a three-faced butler, even installing a tiny, working transistor television set in the forehead of a female figure. For The Visit, she left something more of herself, putting her own purse-minus only her keys...
Carson started in show business in his home town of Norfolk, Neb., where at twelve he appeared as The Great Carsoni, the mitey master of magic and ventriloquism (he can still do both). After graduation as a journalism major from the University of Nebraska, he became a disk jockey, was a writer for CBS's Red Skelton, then quipster-quiz-master for ABC's afternoon Who Do You Trust? And in his five years of squeezing comedy out of contestants, Carson found just the honing he needed for The Tonight Show...