Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps that's the real sign of an affluent society. Our necessities are taken for granted...
...other assorted vehicles that have to be maneuvered with military precision, and only the director can say where they are to go. Most of the questions he simply ignores or shrugs off, however, his head shrinking toward his collar like a turtle putting out the OUT-TO-LUNCH sign. Short, hunched, with deep lines across his face, Peckinpah looks older than his 52 years. He always gives the impression that he is being stalked by some monster who is about to gobble up him and all his progeny. In a sense he is; the monster is half alimony and half...
Finding telltale signs of a man on the run is no job for a novice. Garrison, who spotted the trail that eventually led to Ray's seizure, can tell approximately how long ago some underbrush was shoved aside or crushed by men's feet, simply by the color of the brush-a fresh break has almost no discoloration, but an older break is brownish. Garrison can also determine if a convict has a partner traveling with him by noting that a twig has been bent back or broken shoulder-high. "There's almost an instinct...
...whose members are hand-picked by the board of directors (membership costs $1,000, plus $30 monthly dues). We live in a status world, and Pip's is status," says Stan Herman, a Beverly Hills realtor who founded the place with Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner. Couples who join sign contracts providing for a second membership at the price of the first in case their marriages break up. Catering mostly to prosperous professional and business people and show biz stars (habitues include Paul Newman, Peter Falk, Tony Curtis, Lucille Ball, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra), the casually elegant disco area...
...senior had originally been a catcher, and the St. Louis Cardinals were impressed enough with his defensive talents and his textbook left-handed swing to offer him $40,000 to sign as a high school senior. He declined, choosing first a career at South Carolina, but somewhere along the line he gained 20 pounds and lost his quickness, forcing the switch to DH. His career took several spins and culminated in his final batting average .222. Pro interest has waned, to say the least, but the South Carolina bench was plenty excited when he broke...