Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clouseau has the shrewdness of idiocy. He is driving his car. A gorgeous floozy jumps in at a stop light. She leers invitingly. He is dumbfounded. She leers some more. He begins to suspect that she has something not quite upright in mind. She smolders. He is within seconds of deciding that a lewd proposition is in the air. She opens her mouth and says, huskily, "It's green." Now he is flummoxed, filled with honest consternation- and intrigued. Can she mean . . . ? "The light," she explains sweetly...
...kept it chugging along ever since. The U.S. shopper still seems insatiable, but now the experts are becoming worried about him (and, of course, her). Says a top Washington economist: "The golden question mark for the economy is, what is buried in the consumer's mind?" Echoes Daniel Brill, the Treasury's chief economist: "I'm very concerned right now about what is going through the consumer's head, as well as what is coming out of his pocket...
...portrait off the wall and hides it behind a cupboard and when his wife enters the parlor, Mr. Manningham authoritatively interrogates her on the whereabouts of his missing painting. Getting frantic and confused, Mrs. Manningham admits that she must have hidden the thing, quite unbeknownst to her own conscious mind. Mr. Manningham's conclusion is that she must be crazy...
...ingenuity of various tricks and utensils about the place, rather than the place itself. Doors opening by 'magic' if you touch but one of them. Other doors swinging food in, as the mantle quietly slips wine bottles up ... He had a Connecticut Yankee's engineering mind inside a Southern gentleman's frock coat. This superficially clashes with the popular image of him as a vague idealist. But that is what saves the image. He is the idealist as practical man-one who can make a plow or play a fiddle, though he was not 'practical...
...Great Scott!" I expostulated. "How did you read my mind...