Word: slips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a hard day at the job, some folks like to slip into something comfortable and just clown around for a while. Take Actor Walter Matthau, who teamed up with Son Charles, 13, and Stepdaughter Lucy Saroyan, 29 (daughter of Writer William Saroyan), for opening night of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Los Angeles. While Singer Tony Orlando played ringmaster, Actors Bob Newhart, Robert Mitchum, Sally Struthers and other off-duty stars paraded into center ring on elephants, all to raise money for Project Hope. "Circus performers are without guile, thoroughly professional," said Matthau after the annual...
...near Mammoth. Over the thermal source hangs a blind light. The sky presses high and clear; the Milky Way lighting out like the veins on a drunkard's nose, delicate filigree work on an ever-widening expanse of blackness. A couple of hundred yards downstream from the thermal we slip into the runoff. The current is scalding and strong. Briggs talks of Charles Manson. The night is black and steamy and lost--except for the blind light and the scissoring beams of cars lurking on the road a half mile away...
...black musician turns violent revolutionary after his new Model T is vandalized by jealous whites. Harry Houdini, the immortal escape artist, cannot slip from his mother's apron strings. He is also a man incapable of political thought because, in Doctorow's moving phrase, "he could not reason from his own hurt feelings...
...PROBABLY started laughing at the loser in grade school gym class--you know, the kid who could never do a somersault without slipping on his shoelaces on the uptake. He had banana peel appeal. By the time he hit high school he'd mastered the art of the somersault and maybe even a cartwheel but when it came to girls he'd usually slip off his social shoelaces just often enough to give the cool kids a yuk or two. Well, losers grow up and when they start making their first twenty or thirty thousand, people stop laughing at them...
Meanwhile, the identimats are delivered and Harvard is going to use them somehow, palm prints or no. Students entering the dining halls will have to slip their bursar cards into the slot and push down on the machine, just as though their palm prints had been encoded, while the checkers check them off the old way. The whole business is worse than pointless--it's easier than ever to lend your card to someone else, and the dining hall personnel have the extra burden of supervising machines that are just there for show. People practicing on the new machines...