Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...precise. Biggest-seller or most-seller would be more accurate, since the connotation of quality in "best" is frequently undeserved. And there is doubt even as to quantity. A novel that sells 5,000 copies in one week may edge onto the weekly lists (usually compiled from bookstore reports), rub titles with yearlong, million-copy works and fade into the remainder stores after a few weeks...
Contemporary critics kissed off Derby Day as vulgar and commonplace, but it offers today's viewers a rare opportunity to rub elbows with a red-blooded race of Britons sporting in a roseate world when the pound seemed forever sound. In addition, Frith's breezy freshness and mundane subject matter mark him as an artist who did more to announce Manet and Degas than either he or they would have been prepared to admit...
...airbases. Here he changes his scrip for U.S. dollars, is checked out for neatness, lectured on good behavior, and then, within 24 hours, he is off. The first pleasure is climbing into big Pan Am planes, complete with tilt-back seats, pretty stewardesses and "refreshments," where privates rub elbows with colonels, and all rank goes by the board...
...walking and a lot of working. He'll launch into an old soft-shoe step while on the phone, sleeps irregularly but can cork off for a few seconds any old time. Wherever he goes, he takes his masseur, Fred Miron, who gives Hope a 45-minute rub every day. He loves practical jokes and mechanical toys; one favorite is a battery-driven Frankenstein monster that moves its arms and head in grisly fashion for about 30 seconds, then drops its pants and blushes...
...casting "people who look like people" and treating each scene as "a first-run movie in miniature," Zieff has helped turn the TV commercial into something of an art form. Now if only some of this expertise would rub off on the rest of TV programming...