Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overlooking a reach of the Pacific Ocean. Offshore, four young men bestride their surfboards, eyes riveted on the horizon, looking for all the world like guards against an invading fleet of Chinese gunboats. Rex now lies supine on a chaise longue, and somewhere I have managed to ask a question: How does it feel to be on the other side of the interviewer's pencil...
...really like at all. You know, I'm beginning to see why some of the people I talk to have anxieties. Being interviewed is a very artificial thing. You never really know what the attitude of the interviewer is, why he's asking a particular question...
Waiting for Hitler. My particular question at that moment concerns the miniature gold whistle Reed wears around his neck. He keeps tugging at it. "It's from Tiffany's," he replies. "Fourteen-karat. From Tiffany's. It's just a gift from a young lady. Nobody famous...
...seems disappointed, and I can't tell if it is because of the question I asked or because nobody famous had given him the 14-karat gold whistle from Tiffany's. So I ask him about his work habits. At once he is cheered...
...Good question. In Hang 'Em High, the year's grisliest movie so far, those seeds are tended until they burst into bloody bloom. Fresh from his success in a long series of Italian oaters, Clint Eastwood plays a leathery loner out to clean up a dirty territory. An unauthorized posse mistakes Eastwood for a murderer and decides that he is nooseworthy, but a kindly marshal helps him escape. Clint spends the rest of the picture ricocheting off some loquacious character actors, getting leaky with bullet holes, and running the lynch mob to earth. Along the way, the necrophilic...