Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Money and Run, a new film he co-authored and will star in. Has success spoiled him? "I just fail with a better class of women now," sighs Woody, adding that Parker Bros, has bought the memoirs of his love life and will turn it into a new parlor game...
...town began inauspiciously enough in 1964, with 40 dwelling units, three miles of unpaved road, and a population of 160. Today, it has grown into a palm-dotted development of 550 homes and apartments, 54 miles of paved streets, 105 businesses including a bank, a shopping center, a pizza parlor, bowling alley and six restaurants, and a golf course. Though most of the carefully controlled architecture is uninspired, Wood added a Disneyland touch to the Lake Havasu Hotel by running a waterfall over its roof...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students will hold its election meeting at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the PBH Parlor...
What gives is an author who knows that ideas make the best parlor games. Earth's books, whatever their shortcomings, cry out not merely to be read but to be played with. His friend, Novelist and Critic Leslie Fiedler, enthusiastically calls Earth "an existentialist comedian." The description is apt, for Earth is essentially a humorist who believes that it is absurdly comical to take anything too seriously, including himself. His books bubble with back-alley sexual humor that derides the solemnity of love. Earth's characters are never cast as heroes: there is something slightly ludicrous about them...
...sleeper into Everyman) and "Haveth Childers Everywhere" (making him Adam, father of all living). Once the reader gets the hang of this, the possibilities are endless: H.C.E. can also stand for "Human Conger Eel" and a hypothetical chemical formula, H²CE³ As a game, it beats parlor (or bedroom) psychonalysis...