Word: scamping
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...from the oversize Japanese nationalist who takes on a visiting American ape in King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963) and from the wholesome environmentalist wrestling a mess of sludge in Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster (1972). Poor thing. With apologies to Sondheim: "First you're everyone's rough-hide scamp; then the other monster; then you're camp...
Spalding reconfirmed for TIME that the marriage, which he calls "a childish scamp," actually took place. He disputes a significant detail in another part of the book, the now much reduced portion dealing with Marilyn Monroe. Hersh writes that in 1960, on an occasion when Monroe was binging on alcohol and pills, Spalding went to Los Angeles at J.F.K.'s request "to make sure she was O.K.--that is, to make sure that Monroe did not speak out of turn." Spalding confirms the trip but emphatically denies that it was in any way intended to keep her quiet...
Thomas Jungling Sorenson is superb as Mendel, playing him as an impish yet innocent scamp. Mendel knows perfectly well what lines he is not supposed to cross, yet time after time he turns big puppy eyes on his mother or father and asks some outrageous question that causes an eruption. Yet despite his mischievous intentions, Mendel asks his questions out of a sincere desire to ferret out the mystery surrounding...
...Hersh suggests that in 1947 Kennedy secretly married a Palm Beach socialite, Durie Malcolm, and never had the marriage annulled. Malcolm, who is still living, denies the allegation. But Kennedy friend Charles Spalding re-confirmed for TIME that the "childish scamp" of a marriage did actually take place...
...some historical tableau. The author's use of language is a fresh breeze on a hot day. Shea's windbag of a father-in-law is a "self-important old streak of misery." And when Shea's sister-in-law is asked whether she loves a certain scamp and charmer, she replies, "What an idiot question! I could put the darling little fellow in my pocket and walk the earth's highways with...