Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vegas, where casino doors never close and show business acts are the loss leaders for the gaming tables, once had a problem with its graveyard shift. Predictably, there would be a lone high roller whose eyelids seemed to be held open by pieces of red pimiento; but the little money was creeping off to bed, and the problem was how to keep it awake...
Dove's flight was no easy one. The public would not fly along with him. Before his death in 1946, he perched in many New York and Connecticut rookeries (yawl, yacht club, farmhouse, abandoned roller skating rink, abandoned post office) and pecked away at many trades (chicken farmer, lobsterman ). But he worked stubbornly at translating matter into spirit, and buried in the ground work that failed his standards. Currently on display in a major retrospective at the Worcester Art Museum are 43 works that stayed above ground. They look contemporary as can be; and perhaps...
Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A taped report on amateur roller skating championships at Fort Worth...
...Marxists in terms of class conflict, Manhattan Book Dealer Henry ("Chip") Chafetz views it in terms of Lady Chance. How did an Indian squaw pick her brave? By how good a gambler he was; otherwise she and the kids might find themselves the pawns of a sharper peach-stone roller. What did Thomas Jefferson meditate on while composing the Declaration of Independence? His losses at backgammon, cards and lotto. Who caused the Great Chicago Fire? Not Mrs. O'Leary's cow but Mrs. O'Leary's crap-shooting son, who was rolling the bones...
...comedy, the civil war between generations. Her sharpest jabs are scarcely meant to be funny and are aimed at that badly frayed bogeyman, the Americanization of the Old World. The book ends with a teen-age riot when Yanky Fonzy, a pasty-faced U.S.-type rock 'n' roller, is booked into Le Pop Club de France, escorted by two runaway idolaters from Eton-Fanny's younger sons, naturally. The Yanky Fonzy riot almost saves Don't Tell Alfred, but what it really needs is a garlic...