Word: saturday-night
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...novels of John Marquand to the novels of John O'Hara. John Cheever, who writes of middle age with autumnal sadness, is its prose laureate. In O Youth and Beauty!, he tells of the ritual of Cash Bentley, a former track star turned 40 who, when the Saturday-night suburban party was guttering out between the empty gin bottles and the full ashtrays, would pile the furniture together in clumps and at a friend's revolver shot, go hurdling over...
Lord Love A Duck is a murky black satire about a teen-age dropout whose every wish comes true. Except for Tuesday Weld's Saturday-night zest, the audience's wishes are unfulfilled. Roddy McDowall, as a teen genie, enables Tuesday to vamp her high school principal, cavort seductively with her father, bury her mother, marry too soon, dispose of her young husband and become a beachnik movie star. All the nonsense strives to spoof the ethos of American youth, but the film's real message-which obviously appeals to Producer-Director-Writer George Axelrod-is delivered...
...purpose of printing in many different places at once is, of course, to get closer to the readers and save shipping time. This has led to increasingly complex logistics. As we approach our Saturday-night deadline, all TIME stories-which have been justified and fitted on perforated paper tape-are transmitted by wire from the Time and Life Building in Manhattan to our chief printing plant, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, in Chicago. There the tapes are reproduced and automatically operate high-speed Linotype machines. After stories are thus set, and page forms completed, Vinylite impressions are made of each page...
...actually out and private dinner parties are in, but try to remember not to put it that way because it is out to say that something is in. Yet nothing is in-er than a dinner on the Bel Air circuit. Careers are made or snuffed there-at Saturday-night after-dinner screenings in the Bel Air homes of new power centers like Producers Harold Mirisch and Ray Stark, or old Hollywood truebloods like Bill Goetz, son-in-law of Louis B. Mayer...
Even the small rooming houses for women, which are no more than small dorms and are not selective, pressure their residents into active social lives. According to a freshman in a very small house, it is almost mandatory to attend the Saturday-night parties...