Word: makin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kachina dolls is probably second only to Barry Goldwater's. Though the family car appears to be a standard Pontiac station wagon, it was custom built. "I wrote to the head man at G.M.," he beams, "and said, Tm gonna have to desert you if you don't stop makin' cars for women.' " They fixed him up with a model deep enough to accommodate him, Stetson and all. Three of his seven children live with him: Aissa, 13, John Ethan, 7, and Marisa, 3. Two older sons, Pat and Michael, run Wavne's Batjac film-production outfit. And 16 grandchildren...
...name. "You the guy been makin' all the trouble in town?" Mumbling. Fright. "We hear you been stayin' with the niggers and stirrin' up trouble." No, sir. Now some action; two of the men began looking through my car. That wasn't good, since I had 500 copies of the Courier sitting on the back seat. They didn't know what the paper was, but they could tell they didn't like...
...just plain mad, the slang harangue of Rockin' Robbie D is delivered in a keening, rapid-fire wail that is recognizable only to dogs, seismographs-and teenagers. Not that the kids understand it all; sometimes, when Mr. Hip Lip, as he is also called, starts "makin' with the shakin' " on Detroit's WCHB, the station runs a write-in contest called "What Did Robbie Say?" Nobody really knows, least of all Robbie. The important thing is that Rockin' Robbie and dozens more like him have given radio an advanced case of the screaming meemies...
...little money down and years to pay the balance, an Iowa farmer or Rhode Island schoolteacher can acquire without seeing it a small strip of Florida that is bound to quadruple in value-or so the salesmen hint, using a Will Rogers slogan, "Buy land, they're not makin' it any more." Art has become as much of a speculative exercise as an esthetic experience; collectors have bought millions of dollars worth of art works, often in hope that the purchase will increase in value as the artist becomes better known. Amateurs can also dabble in oil-well...
Fusty Classicism. Eakins (rhymes with makin's) had the kind of whole-souled character that let him absorb rebuffs and carry on with total concentration. The son of a Philadelphia teacher of penmanship, he whisked through school so fast that he had an A.B. in 1861 at the age of 17. He loved to hunt, fish, swim, sail and skate, and he was good at all these sports. But he loathed the fusty Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where pupils spent week after week copying classical statues. To get a firsthand knowledge of anatomy, he took courses...