Word: photogate
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TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face wherein a glamour photog (Fred) turns a bookish square (Audrey) into a top model; in Paris; with music...
...session one press agent said he'd seen a lot of girls start out, "but this one really knows where she wants to go and she will get there." Added an impressed photog as Eva leaned seductively over a piano: "She's sure got the equipment...
...Festival did without the usual exhibit of crafts, which are frankly peripheral anyway. But I must protest the exclusion of photography, which was such an outstanding part of the 1959 Festival. Photog- raphy is certainly an "art," even if not on such a high level as the other acknowledged arts...
...pants and diaphanous shirt pasted to her most treasured assets, Diana quickly emerged, and screaming "unprintable words" joined her ex-pugilist husband in pummeling the prostrate photographer. The damage: a sprained back for Diana, a fractured right hand for her husband, a swollen nose, numerous bruises and lacerations for Photog Sawyer. Denying that he had pushed anyone, Sawyer said that he would not press charges, seemed to realize that it is not good for a man to run into a couple of swinging Dors...
...cuff, scoff and fluff will keep the "ff.") Also doomed to Trib extinction: the letters "ph" within a word, which will be replaced by "f," e.g., anglofobe, sofistry, sofomore, sofisticate, biografy. Magnanimously, the Trib granted "ph" the right to continue to exist at the start of words, e.g., philosofy, photog-rafer. Explained Amputator Astley-Cock: "It is a wise policy to recognize the universally valid principle of festina lente (hasten slowly). To abolish 'ph' at the beginning of words would mean to be out of line with the dictionary . . . Where, for instance, would a foreigner or student find...