Word: motel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cruises' the highways in a chauffeured black Cadillac bearing the license plate HJ-28 (for the number of his ice-cream flavors) and a silvery replica of his soft-sell characters, Simple Simon and the Pieman, on the hood. He discovers half a dozen new restaurant and motel sites a year, claims that the success of his rapidly spreading motels is due to the fact that he builds them on sites that seem a natural place for restaurants...
...Motel Culture. Novelist West is too intent on castigating his characters to really create them. Like many a transplanted American, English-born West, the son of British Author Rebecca West and the late great H. G. Wells, is drawn to the neon glare of U.S. life, but he lacks the gift of a Nabokov for rendering the garish horrors of motel culture. Author West obviously intends his critique of the horrible Hatfields to embrace the present-day U.S., but one rotting family tree scarcely makes a national forest...
...mostly do set pieces that are almost playlets. Using the telephone as a trademark prop, Shelley Berman prefers to find his material in the living room rather than the newspaper. Now a father talking to his daughter before her first date, he tells her that a car is a motel room on wheels; now Dr. Sprocket, child psychologist, he tells a patient's mother: "I know your little boy. His name is Oedipus." (While Sahl's four published recordings have sold only 125,000 copies, the closer-to-the-fingertips comedy of Shelley Berman has sold nearly...
Doyosi Ki-i-yeno. One evening last week, in an apartment motel in Van Nuys, seven Episcopalians of Father Bennett's former flock met together to await the coming of the Holy Spirit. Bursts of laughter from a television set across the courtyard invaded the reverent silence, but the two men and five women paid no attention, praying aloud from time to time for individuals in sickness or trouble and for "those who are resisting the out pouring of the Holy Spirit...
...Apartment. Producer-Director Billy (Some Like It Hot) Wilder's pointed tale of a junior executive (Jack Lemmon) who permits his licentious bosses to use his Manhattan pad like a midtown motel. With Shirley MacLaine...