Word: nevers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left with nothing to do," says Lerner, who figures she must get her energy from "simplifying her life. She has 20 pairs of beige slacks, white shirts and black sweaters. When she gets up in the morning, she knows what she's going to wear. She never considers what she's going to have for dinner because her cook knows she eats very simply. All the decisions that exhaust the normal person, she has eliminated...
...Lerner's Lerner. As for Hepburn's voice, Previn thinks she's got it. "There's been an enormous improvement just since I heard her last summer," he says. As Adler sees it, "She's like Rex Harrison, only she out-Rexes Rex: you never quite know when the singing stops and the talking begins." It's probably just as well; who else but Hepburn could make a rhyme of the first stanza of her opening song...
Almost every U.S. tourist overseas knows that the place to change money, pick up the mail from home and meet fellow travelers is American Express. Famed as they are, however, the American Express offices in Paris, Rome, Tokyo and just about every other capital have never been the company's big profit makers. For many years, Amexco was really not much more than a bank with a tourist front. Lately it has branched into two dozen other areas of business, to become a sort of department store of financial and travel-related services...
...will not pass scrutiny ("He smiled. I smiled. We smiled. And the sky smiled too."); the melodies are scarcely more tuneful than a piece of hard chalk drawn across a blackboard. Even with O'Toole's oddly moving Sprechgesang and Clark's perfect phrasing, the numbers never add up to a score...
...never missed it," he says. "The whole human condition is slavery, and self-liberation is that little flash in the darkness for the individual." That attitude is about all that Fowles' novels have in common. "In modern art we ought to get used to the idea that the world of the imagination is a kind of landscape in which a writer can go wherever he likes." Among future excursions Fowles is planning: a novel of Nabokovian linguistic experiment and two "entertainments"-a detective thriller and a science-fiction story...