Word: pallor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well-tailored and wan, Jeremy Thorpe, 49, former leader of Britain's genteel Liberal Party, sat quietly in the red-brick Somerset courthouse, taking occasional notes with a gold ballpoint pen. Despite his pallor, Thorpe looked more like the practicing barrister he once was than the principal defendant in what London's hard-breathing Daily Mail is calling "the case of the century...
...late, however, the self-ordained "rock-'n'-roll animal" has spruced up considerably, put on some weight and diminished his waning-moon pallor. Now 36, he lives with at least a semblance of normality, sharing a Greenwich Village apartment with a male lover named Rachael, who chews him out in the manner of spouses everywhere whenever Lou plays his guitar at peak volume. "The most frightening thing anyone can find out about me is how sane I am," Reed insists, glowering out from behind his wrap around shades...
Dover's gleaming, laminated covers and sprightly interiors belie their origins. Eighteen years ago, after shuttling around Manhattan, the Cirkers settled on Varick Street, a glum manufacturing area south of Greenwich Village. The industrial pallor of Dover's office walls suggests a place where parking tickets are paid, and the low clatter of sorting machines is more reminiscent of post office than publisher. But within those corridors the search for new volumes is as lively and noisy as a fox hunt. Some 200 employees are engaged in the tracing of new sources, designing covers and books, filling mail...
Playwright Tally's approach is chronological and documentary, but he never gets icebound by his research. A back cloth of ghostly white covers the entire rear wall, and the floor has a bleak, blinding pallor. The sled carrying supplies and scientific instruments is a gray oblong mass to be pushed and pulled by the men like a cursed rock of Sisyphus...
...signs and traces of this mighty war to end all wars were still all around us. Veterans everywhere! Professors and students returning to pick up careers that had been interrupted by service in Europe or in the Pacific: the men from the Pacific theater sometimes still had that yellow pallor that came from taking atabrine, an early anti-malarial drug. A boy down the hall from me in Weld had escaped with his mother from the Warsaw ghetto. That fall the indoor gym for a while was filled with cots to acommodate the sudden influx of returning soldiers--occupation troops...