Word: riggings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unpersuasive Argument. Last week a deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court saved the Government's case, holding that neither state nor federal agents need warrants to rig their informants with bugs. Four Justices felt bound by a line of cases holding that an individual has no constitutional right to protection from informers. "Inescapably," wrote Justice Byron White for the majority, "one contemplating illegal activities must realize and risk that his companions may be reporting to the police." White found the addition of a hidden third party to the conversation an unpersuasive argument to challenge the constitutionality of the surveillance. According...
Ditto: Phil Silvers. If someone is going to do an in-place jog in your living room in a blue sweatsuit, and rig the timer so that he won't collapse in the middling prime of his life, then why not share the pleasure of Phil's strenuously hilarious company? What with his toothy grin and Dennis' prehensile incisors, the pair might be auditioning for a dentists' convention...
...preparing himself, Ustinov boned up on the period and North. In preparing viewers to accept a unique approach to a potentially tedious subject, the producers show Ustinov getting his beard shaved and putting on a powdered wig and 18th century rig over his own prime ministerial paunch. Sevareid also read up on the subject for a month, but wore his usual mid-20th century suit for the filming, which took place in Wroxton Abbey, North's ancestral home, near Stratford-on-Avon...
There is something touching in the process by which purely utilitarian things, such as bridges, Model Ts and old penny bubble-gum machines, become vaguely mythical collectors' items. Last week in Britain, the new London Bridge, an unprepossessing rig of steel and concrete, was partially opened, but it was merely a means of getting from one side of the Thames to the other. However authentic the reconstruction in Arizona, the old bridge has vanished; monuments cannot be transplanted. London Bridge without London is, after all, not London Bridge. How does Cochise greet Charles Dickens...
...groupie sub-culture is a direct descendant of the "band-chicks" that lived around jazz groups in the forties. The rock lexicon is almost completely derivative of jazz groupies. Plaster-casting comes from a saying out of the "be-bop" era, "Plate you now, cast you later." The word "rig" seems to have originated in the lyrics of the Delta blues singers...