Word: palmed
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Like the modern jazzmen who were his contemporaries, he helped define cool for postwar America. He had hoboed across the country as a teenager, got into movies taking anonymous horse falls and survived a setup drug bust (he described jail as "just like Palm Springs without the riffraff"). Stardom, he implied, was just another of life's little absurdities to be sardonically observed and fatalistically played out. As the best of his screen characters did. There's a marvelously stunned stoicism in his confrontation with the inner furies that haunt him in Pursued. And when he turned to outright psychopathy...
DIED. AMOS TUTUOLA, 77, Nigerian novelist who foraged into Yoruba folklore for his grisly tales; in Ibadan, Nigeria. In prose unfettered by grammatical conventions, Tutuola depicted mythic odysseys. In The Palm-Wine Drinkard, a wino travels to the afterworld and battles a horned monster to appease his hellish thirst...
DIED. DENNIS JAMES, 79, ubiquitous master of ceremonies who was host of the first sports telecast and such game shows as Haggis Baggis; in Palm Springs, Calif. James established himself as an inventive entertainer and emcee at the wrestling ring, where he used his gimmicky "cracklebone," a rubber bone, to imitate the sound of bones crushing...
That doesn't mean we can't complain about it. "Money doesn't go as far as it used to," says Sandra Ambrookian, 43, a medical-supply saleswoman from Milwaukee. She's relaxing in L.A. after a vacation in Palm Desert, Calif. Drinking with her is lawyer David Adelman, 41, divorced and in debt but looking great. "I think people are pretty good at hiding the fact that times are not as good as we'd like them to be," he says. Sean Love, a 26-year-old movie post-production worker, couldn't agree more. He smiles. He knows...
DIED. JEAN LOUIS, 89, Oscar-winning designer whose fluid fashions draped Hollywood's most mythic figures; in Palm Springs, California. Louis's rapport with his leading ladies (Marilyn Monroe reportedly introduced herself by disrobing) inspired such creations as Rita Hayworth's come-hither black satin gown in Gilda and the sequined formfitting dress that Monroe wore to serenade birthday boy (and President) John Kennedy...