Word: rackingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hustler (20th Century-Fox), commercially speaking, is a long-shot money ball that will probably hit the public's pocket like a rocket and rack up an impressive score. Artistically speaking, it is an amusingly mangled myth, an epos in a pool hall, a ceremony of chivalric valor on the Field of the Cloth of Green...
...king (Jackie Gleason) to do battle for his throne. For 36 hours without intermission, they have at each other: now hacking fiercely at the glistening balls, now waving their cues exquisitely, like pallid wands, as the balls disappear, and always drinking, drinking, drinking as they play. Hour by hour, rack by rack, the young challenger draws steadily ahead, grows steadily more arrogant. After 25 hours, playing for $1,000 a game, he is $18,000 in the green. "It's my table!" he crows. "I own it. I'm the best!" On the sidelines a shrewd gambler (George...
...exhibition does well by these "old masters"-so well, in fact, that when the viewer leaves the historical galleries and moves on to those devoted to the present, he has a sense of having been there before. The descendants of Marcel Duchamps' "readymades"-a bicycle wheel, a bottle rack, a urinal, all shown just as they are, but out of context -are everywhere. Arthur Dove used needlepoint, some old shingles, and a page from the Concordance to evoke the essence of Grandmother, just as Edith Schloss uses worn and faded materials for her nostalgic Dow Road and Stephan Durkee...
...usually put it where the person in the box office can see it. She's delighted to keep an eye on it." A motorcycle cop once gave Sweater Designer Pamela Colin a personal escort as she wove through dense traffic with boxes of sweaters strapped to her baggage rack. George Franklin Jr., executive director of the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations, even pedals in dinner clothes. And Textile Designer George Roper takes his bike up in the elevator of his office building...
...Foreign markets, of course, have a lot of catching up to do. Western Europe's middle class is broadening, and its working class, though still woefully underpaid by U.S. standards, is rapidly working up to the point where, as General Motors Chairman Frederic G. Donner says, "the bicycle rack is being replaced by the parking...