Word: palled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After 14 years, that big, multiple eye has finally begun to pall. "Who the hell ever said there should be TV 24 hours a day?" O'Brian asked last week. He is thinking seriously of switching off all six sets, he said, in favor of seeking broader battleground with a column conditionally titled "Jack O'Brian at Large." In its way, that ambition constitutes Jack O'Brian's most devastating TV criticism...
...aristocracy seems old, aloof, often tyrannical, and too busy discoursing on foreign policy or participating in university colloquia to keep in touch with grass-roots concerns. Some annoying habits of union leaders that are ignored so long as they deliver-frequent travel, conspicuously high living-begin to pall when there is less left to deliver. Unionists call this the "high-hat issue" or "uppity unionism." To escape its onus, one U.A.W. troubleshooter in Pittsburgh refuses to wear white shirts, and a top officer of a food employees union says: "I wouldn't drive a Cadillac these days...
...Pall Mall First. According to Analyst John C. Maxwell Jr., who keeps the most reliable count of this secretive market, American Tobacco's king-size Pall Mall is still the fastest seller, closely followed by R. J. Reynolds' Winston. Unfiltered Camel and Lucky Strike, which vied for first place until the late 1950s, are steadily losing favor. In a comeback attempt, American is test-marketing Lucky Strikes with a tobacco-flavored filter, has sent out Luckies' veteran, quick-tongued radio auctioneer, "Speed" ("Sold American!") Riggs, to promote them in stores throughout the South...
With the quarter almost ended, the officials awarded the visitors a free kick on a foul in the Harvard some, and for the first time, a pall fell over the this hand of spectators on the sidelines. The Crimson's hitherto untouched goal line was foremost in everybody's mind, and a hush descended as the Exeter forward addressed the ball and Crimson goalkeeper Norris Childs crouched to defend his nets...
Behold a Pale Horse. The bigger they come the harder they pall. This picture, for instance, is very long and very expensive. It was constructed by an important moviemaker (Fred Zinnemann, who also directed From Here to Eternity and High Noon), and it contains an important cast (Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif). But size, as the cannibal said while he munched the midget, isn't everything. Zinnemann's direction is occasional, his characters are trumpery and his actors obviously know it. Worst of all, though, is the picture's plot: something about a Spanish Loyalist guerrilla...