Word: pal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense of the man to gasp "It's him!" when later he sees a newspaper photo of Tycoon J.J. Wolfe, a cornpone millionaire from the Ozarks. Such a flash of recognition would, of course, never persuade any court of Wolfe's guilt. But Bone's pal Cutter is convinced-perhaps because he associates the Wolfe type with those who sent him to Viet Nam. He devises a reckless plan to blackmail the millionaire. Bone objects that "extortion is a crime." Shrugs Cutter: "So's murder...
...winner who financed her acting lessons with a secretarial job until Director Howard Hawks cast her as Feathers, the dance-hall girl in his Rio Bravo. Like another Hawks discovery, Lauren Bacall, she was very feminine but very much a man's woman, easy to kid around with, pal around with-and as good as a man with a gun or a deck of cards. Those qualities have clung appealingly to Dickinson through two decades of movie work and on her TV show, which generally gets high marks from feminist viewers...
Readers further learn that Shakespeare stole from Falstaff in other dramas too. Hamlet's elegant admonition, "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio,/ Than are dreamt of in your philosophy," was really first uttered by Falstaffs disreputable pal Bardolph to confuse a policeman in a bawdy house. And that as early as 1459, Falstaff was reflecting: "I think for Hal the whole world was a stage and all the men and women merely players...
...Bogart, Garfield -they believed in things. There was music when they walked." Stony, resplendent in bow tie, watch chain and beret, writes Savannah's music. He admits it takes him two hours to press the crease in his pants, coordinate his colors and get his chains together. His pal, "SugarCoated" Andy Hernandez, 26, nods. "A lot of people think we dress like this only for performances," says Sugar-Coated, who plays vibes. In the '60s, he explains, society drifted further and further away from his dreams. So he turned the clock backward. While rock musicians continue to play...
...landscape of the movie, shot mostly along the East German frontier, abounds in gutted industrial towers, deserted factories and vacant houses. Kings of the Road, which is almost three hours long, rambles aimlessly like Bruno and his pal. It does, however, project a fitfully vigorous vision of a troubled generation and a languishing land...