Word: slouch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stand on sidewalks in front of doorways. The entrances to a few public buildings are heavily sandbagged. Windows and car headlights are painted blue?the ancient color for warding off the evil eye?to conform to blackout regulations. In erratic fashion, street lights are out in various places. Soldiers slouch in the shade of girders on each of the Nile bridges, and guard the Cairo airport, the railroad terminal and key road junctions on the sprawling city's edges. Sonic booms occasionally rattle the windows of Cairenes as MIG fighters scramble daily on simulated interception missions. Through the clear...
...stands with a permanent lopsided slouch, his left shoulder 1 in. higher than his right. He peers out at the world through one clear contact lens and one that is blue-tinted; he is simply too lazy to replace the other half of either pair. He is a Pepsi-Cola addict, but insists that he has kicked the habit: he drinks only ten 16-oz. bottles a day now instead of 15. He likes to read about J. Paul Getty, because he is so rich, and his hero is Frank Sinatra, "because he doesn't give a damn about anything...
...marvelously mordant closeups of his fellow "weekend revolutionaries" as they try to do their ritualistic protest thing quickly, so that they can get back to New York for a dinner party. "Lowell's shoulders had a slump," writes Mailer. "One did not achieve the languid grandeurs of that slouch in one generation-the grandsons of the first sons had best go through the best troughs in the best eating clubs at Harvard before anyone in the family could try for such elegant note." Ideologue Paul Goodman "looked like the sort of old con who had first gotten into trouble...
...Bond roles. Hyman moved up to the big time with The Dirty Dozen, one of the top grossers of 1967. That movie made him a millionaire. To join Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, he actually took a cut in pay (to $250,000 a year). But he is no slouch at spending. He has already granted Bill Cosby's corporation -which started with a capital investment of $150-a five-picture, $12 million contract. Hyman also signed Paul Newman to his first directing assignment, Now I Lay Me Down, and has purchased the screen rights to Tennessee Williams...
Wilson was clearly shaken by the challenge, but in a head-cracking emergency Cabinet meeting, he managed to force his will. He then assured Com mons, while Brown sat in a sullen, cross-armed slouch, that he had backing "as a whole" against the arms sales. The rumors continued that Brown, whose rambunctious social behavior has never seemed to bother Wilson, was not long for the Cabinet, even though such a move would split the party down the middle. Wilson's political stock also waned when he prearranged parliamentary support for continuing the ban-the first time in recent...