Word: max
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second book, Homage to Blenholt, the least successful of the trio, is a bitter comedy around the funeral of Blenholt, the Commissioner of Sewers, whom young Max Balkan reveres as a man who made good. Max is an idling dreamer full of fast-buck schemes, who meets the disaster expected by everyone but himself. Some of the family scenes sound like Arthur Kober's My Dear Bella rewritten by Nathaniel West, but all of the novel that is likely to remain with the reader is the figure of Max Balkan's father, the extragedian of the Yiddish theater...
...Seattle to Miami, by year's end. Long since recovered from the trauma of his ambassadorship to Ceylon-he won derisive headlines in 1957 for his inability to remember at a Senate confirmation hearing the name of Ceylon's late Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike-trim, Texas-born Max Gluck has found a cut-rate way to expand rapidly in discounting: he leases departments within established discount houses...
Things are going dandily-the boys are $18,000 ahead-but the admiral (Dean Jagger) has noticed signals flashing from MAX's ship and concludes from the Morse that the Russians are attacking. Whereupon: somebody drinks a quart of bourbon and walks a window ledge. Somebody says, "Follow that gondola." The Russian consul pounds a table with his shoe. Somebody falls into a canal. Somebody proposes marriage. Somebody eats a mothball...
...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 MAX...
...aspiring bandits are all set to clock Ihe roulette action and flash the data to MAX, when suddenly-quick now, what next?-a beautiful chick pops into the room. She is Brigid Bazlen, a cute, twitchy little trick who does most of her acting with her eyebrows. Then in pops Paula Prentiss, a tall, gawkily gorgeous brunette who is, as one girl must be in every properly run comedy, helplessly nearsighted. She is an old flame of Hutton's whom he left, not, as it would happen in the real world, because she had a cork leg or wanted...