Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...persuades him to sell the bar from under his wife's nose and run away with her to Mexico. Since the wife's nose is usually stuck in a whisky glass, the getaway is not difficult; but before the lovers are done. Destiny slips an ironic Mickey into Billie's beer...
Russian-born Pitirim Alexandrovitch Sorokin, professor of sociology at Harvard since 1930, has long viewed with distress the moral laxity of the U.S., his adopted country. He is especially concerned with the national preoccupation with sex, as evidenced by the success of Mickey Spillane's detective stories ("calculated to enthrall the most brutal sex sadist") and of Dr. Alfred Kinsey's reports on sexual behavior. As a nation, Sorokin warned this week, the U.S. is in danger of going sex-crazy...
...Hollywood, where for kicks he is having a one-movie fling as an actor, Author Mickey (Kiss Me, Deadly) Spillane snarled that Hollywood is "too warm in the winter," most of its movies "terrible" and most of its writers "hacks, pure hacks." As for the film version of his own I, the Jury: "I ... walked out after the first 15 minutes. It was putrid...
...penalty: $600), Interior Minister Theophilus Dönges had made it a crime even to possess them. Standing dusty and unused on a forgotten bookshelf, a copy of Stuart Cloete's The Turning Wheels, UNESCO's The Roots of Prejudice, or any of the works of Novelist Mickey Spillane can cost its owner a fine of $3,000, or five years in jail. As with cobalt, there was even a disposal problem, for it is against the law in South Africa to burn wastepaper, and-until the government makes a ruling on their status-most South African trash...
...sort of Mickey Mouse with social consciousness, takes a few sly nibbles out of a big cheese in U.S. history: Benjamin Franklin. The story, as told by the hero mouse, demonstrates what many schoolboys have suspected-that, for all his achievements, the great man was a bit of a cold turkey who did not mind gobbling up credit sometimes where it was not altogether...