Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...privileges of the Fly offer grist for a conspiracy theory mill, and briefly he evokes visions of monied Fly Club alumni pulling strings with Mass Hall buddies to kill plans for the land. But he then discounts such a theory: "I was too close to it," he says, to miss such machinations...
...Tigers lead the list of the Ivies also-rans. Princeton football has fallen on hard times the last five years, but a revival of sorts is due this year. A fine quarterback, Ron Beible, leads the offense, which will miss standout halfback Walt Snickenberger. The defense, with many returning starters, should be improved...
...hard to understand why anyone would bother to make Smile at all-let alone with loving, modish, professional care. The movie undertakes to point out that beauty contests-in this case, the California finals of the mythical Young American Miss Pageant-are vulgar and stupid exercises that bring out the worst in everyone: sponsors, contestants, audiences. This is not exactly big news. If it were, Bert Parks would be out of the last of his jobs, since the reason that most people tune in events like the Miss America Contest is to prove their cultural superiority to the few remaining...
With Revson's death, only Estée Lauder, whose firm is Revlon's biggest competitor in more expensive lines, remains of the U.S. cosmetics industry pioneers. "The industry will miss him," she said last week. "We need to be kept on our toes." Painted ones, probably, with matching lips and fingertips...
Perversion and Prejudice. An English policeman named Merrick, who also had his eye on Daphne, arrests six Indians and Kumar. A jealous Merrick assumes that the Englishwoman was the victim of a rape organized by Kumar. But when Miss Manners says that Merrick has the wrong men and refuses to testify, a conviction is impossible. Still it is clear to the English community that Merrick has done his job well, and there is no outcry when he manages to have Kumar and his friends imprisoned as political unreliables. The Japanese, after all, have just defeated the English in Burma...