Word: palled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were earlier adversities. Bobby Kennedy's death cast a pall over everything. It certainly did over me. I couldn't campaign for weeks. Then I got started and had to stop because I was ill. I was out of action for twelve days [with the flu, in July]. Then along came the convention-the two conventions, one inside the Amphitheater, one outside. What could have been worse for millions of people to be watching while trying to make up their minds whom to vote for? We went out of there destroyed. It's not a wonder...
...there in Marlboro Country, are among the more mindless on TV.* Now they are engaged in a dreary interior dialogue. In reply to Chesterfield's joshing boast that its 101s are "a silly millimeter longer," Winston Super Kings scoff: "It's not how long you make it." Right, says Pall Mall 100s. What counts is whether you're "longer at both ends." Going everybody one less, Player's cigarettes is currently marketing a new brand in Canada that is "five millimeters shorter" than regular size, which means that "you smoke a little less, you pay a little less." If that...
Rosemary's Baby is even more a media-mogul's product: Yamaha cycles, Pall Mall cigarettes, and assorted brand names are shown on TV sets, dropped on tables, and exhibited shamelessly throughout. The exteriors are bleached-out process shots taken on different days with no attempt made to reconcile light changes. When a little action is necessary, Polanski drags out the hand-held camera for some shaky realism (catch Hitchcock filming violence with a hand-held camera!); and repeatedly, Polanski substitutes tight close-ups for style. If nothing else, Rosemary's Baby is ugly--aesthetically derelict, the groping...
...cultural lag has pulled tight for those two schools; and while they glimpse the development of political activism on their campuses, their students are trying out the tragi-comic scene of dropping, blowing, and shooting pot, acid, hash, speed, belladonna, sunflower seeds, airplane glue, freon, Benzedrex Inhaler tubes, Paragoric Pall Malls, Romilar, and Dr. Schein's Asmador Powder...
Although South Viet Nam had braced itself for the inevitability of negotiations between the U.S. and North Viet Nam, last week's agreement to talk cast a pall of gloom over Saigon. The only official acknowledgment of the decision was a grudging communique issued by President Nguyen Van Thieu's Foreign Ministry, warning that the talks could be used by Hanoi "for propaganda purposes" and "to foster dissension between the Republic of Viet Nam's allies." Still, for nearly a month the South Vietnamese government has had a negotiations task force at work preparing Saigon...