Word: mumness
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...coming up, he says, in the next few years. We're going on some trips. Daddy deserves his vacations. He says he's really happy because he can keep us happy, and he does. If we want something real bad, we go tell him or mum, and they oblige us almost all the time. That's what Daddy almost always says--that he's glad to oblige my sister...
...testify and that he feared the evidence would be used against him in a federal case, Hansen refused to testify in court. Circuit Judge Toshimi Sodetani held Hansen in contempt, jailed him for two weeks, then brought him back to the witness stand last week. Again Hansen kept mum, and Prosecutor Cooper, a prominent Los Angeles defense attorney hired by Hawaii to handle the case, had no choice but to move for dismissal. Said Cooper to the court as Hansen was set free and Fasi taken off the hook: "Justice has been thwarted." So, too. may be Ariyoshi...
Last year he signed on with a small London record company, accepting an amp and tape recorder as his only advance. For his stage name, he borrowed immodestly from rock 'n' roll's first king and then picked Costello from his mum's side of the family. A couple of singles recorded during his days off led to his only album so far, My Aim Is True. When CBS Records executives came to town last July for their international convention, Costello grabbed his guitar, rushed over to the London Hilton and staged a street-corner audition...
...Elliott Gould and, of course, Elton John, whose role as Pinball Wizard in the 1975 movie Tommy helped in the gilding of the pins. Elton, for whom Bally named its Captain Fantastic game, has four ringer-dingers in each of his two pads, and has given one to his Mum...
...Osgood makes the first approach. Speak ing for the tape recorder that is the hedge against future failure, Osgood reports that the thing is in a neatly made wooden box, as usual. No wires or fuses are visible. The customary message is scrawled across the top: "Bugger the Queen Mum." The I.R.A., of course...