Word: order
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mood. In the wake of last week's skirmish, Peking charged that the Russians have removed civilians from along their side of the border to carve out a twelve-mile-deep no man's land in order to "intensify the threat of war against China." The Chinese frenetically warned citizens that it was a "false and deadly dangerous idea" to think that such a conflict would be restricted to the border...
...will be back in front of the cameras after 26 years, and the part is made to order. As Agent Letisha Van Allen, Mae West sets up shop on a huge bed to interview handsome young men-prospective victims for voracious, transsexual Myra Breckinridge. There was no press conference fanfare over 20th Century's latest casting coup ("Mae likes the press, all right," explained a studio flack, "but individually, one by one"); the word was simply passed that Miss West would share top billing with Raquel Welch (Myra) and get a minimum of $350,000 for her role. Still...
When not at the poker table, reporters settled into saloons and, over endless drinks and with endless embellishments, swapped anecdotes. Though less frequently and less soddenly, this still goes on at such press hangouts as Riccardo's and Billy Goat's, a short-order joint with a "Wall of Fame" displaying photographs of Chicago newsmen, some of which bear the inscription "30"-for end of story...
Money's Worth. Vidal claimed that he had deliberately enticed Buckley into the TV eruption as a public service. "Looking and sounding not unlike Hitler, but without the charm," Vidal wrote, "he began to shriek insults in order to head me off, and succeeded, for by then my mission was accomplished: Buckley had revealed himself. I had enticed the cuckoo to sing its song, and the melody lingers...
...Supreme Court among the 135,000 members of an organization that one lawyer described as "middleaged, middle class and middle of the road." As the Chief himself confided, he hoped to show that judges need not divorce themselves from their profession - and indeed from the world - in order to preserve their objectivity. "The fact that judges cannot solve a problem by judicial decision," he said, "is not a reason for judges to remain silent, or to be passive spectators of life around...