Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Left Bank town house from the Ambroise-Paré Clinic, reporters and photographers were jamming the street outside. "I am against suicide," she snapped, "and against pharmacists." Juliette's explanation: she'd just toppled over after taking two sleeping pills and a tranquilizer to try to relax...
Their affair started off nervously, with French Fashion Model Bettina shuffling around for a full hour waiting for her date. Then things began to relax. Her ever-after date, Aly Khan, would round up a group of friends in Paris and drag them all off to a horror film, then drop off to sleep, leaving instructions with Bettina to wake him instantly if he snored. Actually, writes Bettina in Bettina, a history of her five years with the late Aly, the cinema was one of the few places where Aly could get a decent sleep. He was a compulsive gambler...
...most conscientious, like Ernie Ford, spend off-hours playing the local children's hospital, old folks' home, and perhaps the jail. There are command performances at shopping centers and interviews with every 1-kw. disk jockey in the county. And the stars' best chance to relax-the private parties local functionaries are always thrusting upon them-are off limits to Mike North's clients. "You can't win," he advises. "If you don't drink, you're a snob, and if you do, you're a gutter drunk...
Even countries that resisted TV ad vertising-notably Holland, Denmark and Norway-now find themselves debating whether to relax their bans against it. And Britain's venerable government-operated British Broadcasting Corp., where a few years back the very mention of advertising was enough to evoke "cries of horror and alarm," as the Economist once put it, has now begun to reconsider its stand against commercials...
...Only last year, members of Sigma Pi Phi, an exclusive Negro fraternal organization known as "the Boule," debated whether it would be legitimate to donate $5,000 to the N.A.A.C.P. The main argument against the proposal was that an important aspect of the Boule was to allow members to relax and escape continuous involvement with the problems of being a Negro. Those who argued for the donation, including a Negro millionaire, held that a Negro cannot find even a temporary isolation from being a Negro and to attempt to do so would be a flight into unreality. The issue...