Word: magnums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Recounting a speech by Seale on Aug. 27, 1968, Pierson quoted the Black Panther leader as saying. "The time for singing 'We Shall Overcome' is past. We've got to act, Go out and buy a .357 Magnum, a .45, and a carbine-and kill the pigs...
Died. Walter Winchell Jr., 33, only son of the aged, faded columnist, an unsuccessful freelance writer who supported his wife and two children on $191 monthly welfare payments and what he made as a restaurant dishwasher; on Christmas Day, by his own hand (.380 Magnum revolver); in Tustin, Calif...
...desperate flight to Tangier after the murderer of a pop singer has pushed his smoking gun into bystander Enderby's hand. Disguised as an Arab beggar, Enderby plans a real crime--the murder of Rawliffe, a fellow poet who has stolen the plot of Enderby's magnum opus and made a movie from it. But the dying Rawcliffe's pure cynicism is so eminently pitiable that Enderby instead becomes a fast friend, and as if this small magnanimity had opened the way for a flood of emotion, the book ends with an almost-love affair in which Enderby is dazzled...
Unfortunately, all this expert attention was about as helpful as pouring a magnum of champagne into a thimble, because most of the hi-fi sound that Cole created for next week's Andy Williams special will be wasted when it is fed through the nation's strictly lo-fi TV sets. The unhappy fact is that, to keep prices competitive, most TV units are equipped with 4-in., $1.50 speakers, which have all the fidelity of a string stretched between two tin cans. Nonetheless, as Cole forever demonstrates in the specials he engineers for such headliners as Williams...
...staunch romantic idealizer of nature, was born on Staten Island and trained as an architect in New York City. He was not an artist of wide-ranging scope, but he excelled at one uniquely American subject: the blazing radiance of Yankee countryside in autumn. Cropsey's magnum opus, Autumn on the Hudson River, now in the National Gallery, was completed in 1860, while the artist was living in London, and commemorated a view near West Point overlooking Storm King Mountain. The panorama includes hunters, grazing sheep, and sailboats, but its real subject is the vivid plumage of birch, sugar...