Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Walter D. O'Hearn Jr. As evidence, the prosecution produced 27 tape recordings from FBI eavesdropping on Scotto's conversations over a period of five months. On one 1978 tape, he could be heard accepting $5,000 in cash from Montella in the men's room of a New York City hotel. Montella, the onetime owner of a marine carpentry company, testified that the payment was supposed to help prevent labor troubles...
...about $31 billion this year to restrain the retail price of food; frozen turkey sells at $1.81 per lb. and milk at 20? a pint. It will also spend $7.5 billion to hold average monthly electricity and heating bills to $4.50 and the monthly rent for a standard three-room apartment...
...14th Earl of Home (pronounced Hume), 76, who as Sir Alec Douglas-Home was Britain's Prime Minister in 1963-64, is also an author. In Border Reflections, he recounts his private life as Lord Home of the Hirsel, the gray stone 70-room Home "hoose" on the English-Scottish border, surrounded by 3,000 acres of grouse moors and prime fishing spots along a stream called Leet Water. Angular Angler Home, who has tried "every known lure from the maggot to the dryest of flies," also dotes on lore. His technique for harvesting worms, a favorite bait: "Take...
...Mozart's great finale, the statue arrives at the Don's supper as an agent of divine retribution. But there is no room for theology, or even for the supernatural, in the class struggle. Losey, after underplaying the hair-raising moment when the statue first speaks, dissipates its horrific arrival by treating it almost as a hallucination. Then, in one of his most bizarre touches, a glass blower's open furnace-first seen during the overture-materializes once again in the Don's house and engulfs him, in a sort of industrial accident. Don Giovanni does...
...soggy saga goes on and on. The TWA dessert that tastes like "mint-colored shaving cream." The "glorified hot water" that passes for coffee on Pan Am. The menus on National, which are rendered in French (even for breakfast), though "no Frenchman would give house-room" to the meal that follows. The canned fruit, the cannonball rolls, the senile salads. Some of the British inspectors' bitterest barbs are aimed at British Airways; pace Robert Morley, its "farcically pretentious Elizabethan menu heralded one of the worst air meals ever eaten." A British Airways official, who might have been speaking...