Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sheik--who wrestled Bruno Sammartino in the title bout--and being hated by little boys I had never seen before would be a traumatic experience I couldn't handle. And to have angry epithets and foul garbage thrown at me as I entered the ring would make however much money I got too little...
...match is slow and too-obviously staged, or if the pin comes too soon and the action isn't humiliating enough, the crowd registers its disapproval. They boo. The Garden fans become very annoyed if they don't get their money's worth of entertaniment...
...yourself that you're mature enough or sensitive enough so you don't find it amusing to see someone humiliate himself for a laugh. Maybe you can feel proud that you get indignant when others clap gleefully for two midget wrestlers who are making fools of themselves for money. But somehow it's kind of a drag not to be able to laugh...
...clever points scored against a character too unsubstantial to require more than a moment's wry smile. William has a daughter. Naturally she is dull and sniveling; of course she hates his bedtime stories; inevitably she becomes a kleptomaniac. William has an antique business. Of course it loses money. His friends chip money off him in huge hunks, and so do two wretched mistresses whom he inadvertently acquires. Waterhouse goes on making jokes: " 'Are you having an affair with somebody?' asked Poodle as he brushed dandruff from his shoulders...
Everything ends badly. William loses all his money, and Poodle, who has walked out on him, comes clinging back. The reader is left with the information that a fool is a fool and a feeling of bafflement about why a skillful author has chosen to pull the wings off this particular literary...