Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More surprising were some omissions. Sidney Poitier was good in Dinner, better in To Sir, with Love, best of all in In the Heat of the Night. But this plethora of creditable performances apparently worked against him. Poitier got no nomination at all. One of the year's best-selling single records was the title tune from To Sir, with Love; a rock ballad, it was absent from the always conservative best-song list...
Illinois' Ninth District embraces Chicago's Gold Coast as well as the city's crowded West Side tenements. In both neighborhoods, Representative Sidney Yates encountered uneasiness with the war. "But, to use a hackneyed phrase," Yates declared, "they don't want peace without honor...
...Pretty much what one would expect down on the Gulf Coast in 1854. He is handsome and graceful and goes by the name of Beauty Beast. He knows what to do with herbs and French sauces, and he can play Mozart and lesser composers on the pianoforte. His mistress, Sidney Shallop, has never known anything more moving...
...course Sidney's happiness cannot last and Beauty's end is all too foreseeable. The real point is that he goes to his death with pride in his blackness and with no regard for what in him is owed to inherited whiteness. That touch is convincing enough, but not the narrative style ("When first Sidney saw Beauty Beast come walking with buoyant zeal, flesh of her nature lay scorched again"). There is something wildly outdated about such plantation-patented prose...
...best written and funniest piece in the issue, aside from the Poonies' Evelyn Wood ad on the inside back cover, is Sidney P. Lee's parody of a spy story. Lee brings laughs because he is unpredictably unLampoon, and therefore not above a well-placed "Horse-piss...