Word: roll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he has put on his payroll. He is a fugitive from his own district, where he faces a year and four months in jail for defying a $164,000 libel judgment. He is seen only sporadically in Congress, where his absentee record (50% in 1966 on yea-nay roll-call votes) is one of the worst. His fellow House members have largely stripped him of his authority as chairman of the Education and Labor Committee; he even faces a challenge to his seating in the next Congress. As if all this were not enough, a House subcommittee last week...
...erotic exhaustion. On a side trip to Woolwich, he happens to notice a pretty little park where a handsome couple is amorously straying. Nothing better to do, so he follows them, shooting on the sly, till the girl (Vanessa Redgrave) catches him at it and indignantly demands the roll of film. When he refuses, she offers him a roll in camera for the roll in the camera. Wondering why she wants the picture, he contrives by trickery to take the girl and keep the film...
...bearings so often: amusingly drunken cafe brawls, busted suitcases tied up with neckties, lost planes, overcharging tarts and mercenary French petite bourgeoisie. Kerouac is an engaging fellow. Brave, too. At one point, he undertook to explain to goggle-eyed Parisians that he speaks purer French than they, because "I roll my r's on my tongue and not in my throat." For that coup alone he deserves a barony...
ROCK 'NT ROLL...
Nowadays, the proliferating rock 'n' roll groups sing and look so much alike that only their oddball names give them any distinction...