Word: screenland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Raquel's screenland novitiate was typically rugged. She lived in a $70-a-month apartment with her children. She had no job, no car, and her only income was a meager allowance from Welch, who by that time was serving with the Green Berets in Southeast Asia. Raquel, ever resourceful, tied up with Agent Noel Marshall, who coached her in the fundamentals of studio saleswomanship. Every day she rose at 6 a.m., dropped her children at a day-care center and set off on her unappointed rounds of photographers. It was a dreary life, but she kept plugging, waiting...
...becoming a Navy bombardier; Chuichi, a bitter boy who has been summarily dropped out of an American Army paratroop unit. Harold, a literate older brother, irreverently sabotages the ultra-patriotic camp newspaper by inventing a comic-strip character known as "the Nippon Pimpernel." Against an otherworldly background of Screenland magazines, Baby Ruth candy bars, and zoot suiters jitterbugging to the music of "the Jive Bombers, the true Mi-kados of swing," camp life is not all camp. The prisoners are soon polarized into two groups. On the one hand are the Super Japanese, paying homage to the Emperor and extolling...
This sorceress is named Pat Collins, and for practicing her hypnotic arts on the screenland patrons of The Interlude on Sunset Strip, she is paid a hypnotic $3,000 a week. Her two-hour act is as varied as the volunteers who participate, but the formula is always the same. Hypnoteuse Collins, rigged out in plunging neckline, black mesh stockings and assorted bangles, summons volunteers to the stage, where she addresses them in a staccato chant: "Your arms are getting very heavy, every muscle in your body is relaxed ..." Most of her customers go under like sounding marlins, but occasionally...