Word: pies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...splendidly splashy scene in which a man is stabbed in the eye. And there is a gorgeously juicy line, spoken by a ratcatcher to the horrified heroine (Heather Sears). "Oi cud let yew 'ave baoth rats fer tappence," he says sweetly, turning on the charm. "Mike a lavly pie, y'knaow...
...young Sousaphiles a note. Preston is a musical illiterate but a one-man school of charm. As the music money pours in, he collects romantic interest from the town librarian (Shirley Jones), who is suspicious but susceptible. Inevitably, the love of this well-bodiced bookmarm turns Preston into a pie-eyed piper...
...more important, the discounters are making the pie bigger. Last year's dis count store sales of $4 billion are expected to grow this year to more than $5 billion-and conventional retailers are also ringing up increased sales...
Huxley's Pala is at least as explorable as Herman Melville's Typee and more believable than Samuel Butler's Erewhon. But a novelist who writes about erewhon goes against his Serutan. which, as all the world knows, is nature's spelled backwards. Pie in the sky, however deep dish. is never as fascinating as the hard crust of the satirist...
...Mayor Wagner. "Many people are moving back to town." To attract them, Chicago is planning the construction of 50,000 new dwelling units in the heart of the city by 1980, has already cast at least one spectacular lure: the 65-story, twin-towered Marina City, with pie-wedge apartments and balconies with a fine view of the lake. Los Angeles has reversed its historic trend to single homes, is now building more apartments than houses...