Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greenway found the very thought of making a phone call particularly ironic. For communications in South Viet Nam are so bad that reporters often spend days in the field without any contact with their office in Saigon. Until he choppered back to Saigon, in fact, Greenway did not know that the files he was writing in the battered outpost were to become a key part in a cover story...
...poll watchers, women wearing green and white dresses with the words "Louise Day Hicks" embroidered on the bodice, phoned in returns from the city's 275 voting stations, the cockiness at the Boston City Club, a garish stucco Park Square "nitespot," grew stronger and more comfortable. Some 400 people--holders of second-rank civil service offices, boisterous lady lawyers ("when Lawheeze is in, I think I'll ask her if I can be Police Commissioner"), and small-time real estate men--danced jigs, bought drinks, and ate too-sweet brownies. It was their night. Mrs. Hicks came in first...
...Climax. The father-to-be nervously paces the hospital corridor, demanding reassurance from doctors and nurses about the coming birth of his child. Surely, the audience decides, it must be his first. But there he is in a phone booth, being fatherly to a family of two young daughters, a 17-year-old boy and pretty brunette wife. He sends them off on a seaside vacation, and there he is on the phone again, talking to another family of two young boys and a pretty blonde mother...
...Adela (Maria Grazia Carmassi), a onetime opera singer, became his mistress when he began to console her for her cracking voice; and Marisa (Stefania Sandrelli) is a young country girl who fell in love with him at a concert and followed him to Rome. Each of them gets nine phone calls a day from him-a staggering consumption of time and small change...
...meals he consumes in triplicate or the multiple birthdays, anniversaries and holidays that must all be observed. New Year's Eve, for instance, he celebrates an hour ahead of time with Giulia and children (explaining that he has an orchestra engagement to keep); then follows a tender phone call to Adela and children, then a nightclub date with Marisa. His best friend's child has to be baptized twice so that both Giulia and Adela can be godmothers...