Word: neckedness
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Sir: In the 'teens they prized autos that could chug along at barely one-mile-an-hour so they could flirt with walking girls. In the '20s they flaunted hip flasks, wore raccoon coats, necked in rumble seats, and said, "excuse my dust." In the '30s they...
In the family legend, the Teapot Dome scandal of 1924 fixed Nixon's determination-he was eleven at the time -to become a "lawyer who can't be bought" (his mother wanted him to become a missionary). During a high school summer he worked as a carnival barker...
At 57. Guston has returned to painting figures. He has also turned political. It may seem a little late in the century to mount an entire exhibition on the theme of the Ku Klux Klan, but that is what he has done. Drawn in a mock-fumbly, endearing line, hooded...
Hunt and Peck. In the second half of Tora! Tora! Tora!, the bromides stop fizzing and the cliches are hushed. In a brilliant restaging, Japanese planes cut through the cloud cover. There, gliding beneath them, is a civilian biplane, looking like a goldfish among sharks. It is the film'...
In 1921 the group underwent another sartorial change, this time as longshoremen. The slouch-cap and high-necked-sweater camouflage was given away by their standard weaponry-pickaxes and sledgehammers. However, the unit evolved into what one member called "probably the first community-relations bureau in the country." The policemen...