Word: peeking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks ago I had the opportunity of seeing Hyland in action not once, but twice. On the first occasion, on October 8, he was the disinterested reporter earnestly seeking the truth. One the second occasion, on October 9, he was a leader of the November Action Committee, supervising a peek at the imperialist animals quartered in the Center zoo. Reporters, it seems, will go to any lengths these days to get a story, even to wearing a disguise. But on which day, do you suppose, was Dick wearing the disguise...
...vogue of nudity and participatory theater may well continue, but they cannot mask the lack of substance. They are frames without pictures, devices without a purposeful direction. This is a theater that is severely pinched for both means and ends, but at least it has a hope chest to peek into labeled Anticipatory Theater...
...Nowadays, specials are so predictably unspecial that NBC alone has announced more than 100 for next season. Among the most ambitious is a production of David Copperfield starring Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Emlyn Williams and Dame Edith Evans. The most regal spectacular from CBS will be Royal Family, a peek at Queen Elizabeth and her kin. Jacques Cousteau's undersea documentaries will continue to shine...
...American publications, he could be defined as "henpecked." Alain relates that Tante Yvonne cured her husband's fondness for Scotch whisky by adding coffee to his glass, kept the household account book and slipped a hair between the pages so she would know if the President tried to peek. She thriftily bought the presidential shirts, socks and underwear at the Bon Marché, a sort of Parisian Macy's, and once was heard to remark: "You're running France. I'm running the house." Be that as it may, veteran Elysee watchers recall that Charles...
...them to put a lot of gullible egomaniacs through their paces and exploit them at the same time. As might be expected from men of such scruples, the resultant film is tacky and insufferably condescending. It invites audiences to laugh at a pathetic, driven man, while the real clowns peek out from behind the cameras...