Word: nose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FIRST irony is that Gulf Oil stock, vexed by virtue of the company's participation in the economy of the Portuguese colony of Angola, is a mediocre investment. You wouldn't turn up your nose if you heard that your great uncle had just left you 1000 shares. As of yesterday's quotation you would be $25,250 richer. But if you told your financially cagey friends that you had quietly held onto your Gulf shares when they were selling theirs last year, all you would get is a Bronx cheer. For the last four years the stock has steadily...
...Museum-and was duly ignored by it. For most of his working life, critics dismissed him as a pedantic illustrator. Born in 1898, Escher was 52 before his tightly executed woodcuts, lithographs and engravings began to attract even a crumb of attention. A retiring, ironic man with the bony nose and goat beard of an El Greco prelate, Escher took no part in art debates, lived quietly in a village outside Amsterdam, and made few claims for his work. It was improvisation, he insisted: his prints contained nothing that they did not openly state. "Do I have to say that...
Someone gave him a derby, and he mugged with it, a finger held under his nose doing service for the famed mustache. Congresswoman Bella Abzug leaned over his table, clutching her floppy pink hat. "The audience, the audience!" he exclaimed to her. "Everybody was in the audience!" Actor Zero Mostel loomed up and kissed him from the depths of an enormous beard, Actress Claire Bloom, one of his leading ladies (Limelight, 1952), appeared at the table. Roulette Goddard-another protegee (Modern Times, 1936) and his third ex-wife-was somehow brought unscathed through the crowd to chat with...
Some longtime favorites are being dropped in the program shuffle. CBS's twelve-year-old My Three Sons and four-year-old Glen Campbell Show are going, and ABC is twitching its nose and making the eight-year-old Bewitched disappear from prime time. Some newer favorites are spawning the inevitable offspring. CBS is cashing in on All in the Family's success by giving Mrs. Bunker's Cousin Maude her own show. The ethnic emphasis begun by Family is showing up in several new entries. The Catholics and Jews are getting CBS's Bridget Loves...
Long before the subversive scare, the brilliant assembly-line satire Modern Times (1936) had galled industrialists. When the dehumanized Charlie went crazy-when he stepped from the factory trying to tighten the foreman's nose, fire hydrants, the buttons on women's dresses-big-business executives took the gestures personally. When the Tramp waved a danger signal at a truck driver and was arrested by the police for inciting crowds with a Red flag-well, that was ridiculing authority, wasn't it? Explained Chaplin: "I was only poking fun at the general confusion from which...