Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spirit. This is revisionist history carried to the most amiable extreme. It bears a distant relationship to George MacDonald Eraser's superb Flashman memoirs. But while Eraser has produced some remarkable light entertainment, Sobel has manufactured an obsessive parlor game. He is a master pedant who, without cracking a smile, plods through heavily footnoted mock details of North America's internal and external struggles from 1775 to the present. Indeed, there is so much beady-eyed detail that a reader can argue as well about the C.N.A.'s 1966 election (Carter Monaghan, of the People...
...conduct all my business around the pool," he says. So can Frank McMahon, a Canadian oil millionaire. His poolside telephone has four lines for calls to New York and Vancouver. Though many Palm Beach notables deal daily in stock portfolios that could make a conglomerate feel like a shoeshine parlor, it is considered proper to chat not about mergers but perhaps the difficulties of orchid raising...
...provide equal time to all. Breaking out of his retirement once more, Sinatra came up singing Fly Me to the Moon, while Hope kept up patter about the security precautions. Sample: "I've never been frisked so many times. Not that I mind-it's cheaper than a massage parlor." Such was the spectacle of security men literally tripping over one another that the audience roared when Hope joked: "I passed a tree and it cleared its throat...
PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE PARLOR. Rebirth of Soviet Jewry, a Sabbath Table Talk by Chaim Spivakovsky...
Laurence Senelick, professor of Drams at Tufts, will read Shalom Aleichem's Chanukah Tales at the Sabbath Table Talk at 8:45 p.m., tonight, in the PBH Parlor...