Word: roping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back on earth, the ingenious rope could be used underwater to aid aquanauts. Average citizens might well want a version to moor a boat or tow a car, the idea in both cases being to keep things apart as well as together. And Dr. Marton thinks his brainchild might make a big public impact from whence it sprang-as a toy. Flung out loose and then frozen, it makes a marvelously accurate lasso as well as tripper-upper and grabber-onto of things it wraps around. His two children have already demolished two of his homemade versions...
...Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running, by Robert Anderson, uses sex as a jump rope for four separate playlets, skipping over and over the subject all evening. The result is a trifle obsessive but thoroughly enjoyable...
...plot, or what there is of it, concerns a malingering suicide. In Act I, he botches the job with a rope thick enough to tie up an ocean liner. In Act II, he simmers down to melancholy and despair, possibly induced by the "death of God" he keeps talking about, or by revisiting the Central European town from which he had fled as a refugee, or by both. In Act III, he finally hangs himself on a meat hook in the back kitchen of his London delicatessen. The prevailing lack of cheer is not noticeably alleviated by the play...
...punk in the trunk was Andrew von Etter, 26, a smalltime chiseler under indictment for fraud and suspected of being a loan shark. A onetime associate of the late Punchy McLaughlin, he died of a crushed skull and, for good measure, garroting. Whether they choose firearms, rope, blunt instruments, knives or a combination of weapons, the Boston badmen almost invariably indulge in overkill...
...West Point, he starred in soccer, set an Academy record in the 400-meter hurdles, just barely missed qualifying for the 1952 U.S. Olympic team. Zealous when it came to physical fitness, White jogged a couple of miles every morning to keep in shape, shinnied a 40-foot rope in his backyard on weekends, usually bicycled the three miles between his Houston home and the NASA Space Center. To his fellow astronauts, it came as no surprise when White took along a gold cross, a St. Christopher medal and a Star of David on his 62-orbit Gemini 4 flight...