Word: peeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AVENGERS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Britain's upper-crust spy chasers, John Steed and Emma Peel, return to save democracy-or at least Her Majesty Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee star in the first episode, "From Venus with Love...
Prospect St. at night is magic. Fifteen Victorian mansions line the street, glowing gold from their windows. Princeton men in v-neck sweaters and blue button-down shirts walk down the sidewalk in groups of three or four. A few groups peel off at each building: Colonial, with its high pillars; Cap and Gown, with its Tudor facade; Ivy; Tower Cottage. It feels like someone should be humming "Going Back to Nassau Hall" in the background...
...Mustafa Darweesh, the Ministry of Culture's chief censor, thinks he can stomach a more liberal code. "There is a new outlook everywhere in the field of art," he explained soberly. The outlook in Egypt will certainly improve with Darweesh's ruling that the girls may now peel off five or six of their seven veils. Purred Nahed: "This is a nice...
...Graham Greene, C. P. Snow and Vladimir Nabokov are also traceable in this deliberate hybrid. But Anthony Burgess is not trying to imitate them. He has never written an unoriginal novel or an unlaminated one. Every Burgess surface conceals another, like Salome's veils, and they must all peel off to expose the author's naked core. In this exceptional book, subtitled An Eschatological Spy Novel, the reader quickly discovers that Burgess has much more on his mind than international intrigue...
...Schrafft's "stared morosely at the cherry in the martini." The book ends with the intelligence, given a whole page to itself, that "a martini has an olive"; although, to be more precise, it is more frequently encountered nowadays in the company of a twist of dry lemon peel, or probably just the stare of the lonely lady. The book remorselessly follows Rona's career from infancy (she was a whiz at toilet training, never gave trouble about sucking her thumb, and later got A's in practically everything) up to an affair with some undocumented type...