Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most important of all to him and to his nation, a marked majority of his countrymen support his Viet Nam policies. Says a Roanoke, Va., hardware salesman: "It's ticklish and explosive, and he's handling it smart." An Indianapolis school principal says, "He's right in Viet Nam; the strongest nation must act like the strongest." Says a La Mirada, Calif., housewife, "That war's been forced on us, but he's been right...
...Nilsson has referred to a tenor partner as "having a resonance chamber where his brain used to be." Metropolitan Opera Soprano Teresa Stratas takes a feminine view: "Stupidity, no. Egomania, yes. Tenors seem stupid because they are so fully absorbed in themselves. Sopranos -they all have to be pretty smart cookies to have gotten where they are." Tenor Richard Tucker, in a cheerily frivolous reaction that goes far to refute the thesis, comments: "Since tenors usually carry their fat elsewhere, you can be sure they are not fatheads. And besides, the mere fact that there's vibration...
...spat Henry Miller-authored obscenities in the 1963 Spoleto Festival production of Just Wild About Harry. He plays Karl Glocken in the film version of Ship of Fools, which premières this week. He is the comic-villain Mr. Big in an early episode of Get Smart, a promising new TV series due in September. And just to prove that acting is not all he can do, he has been filling a Greenwich Village nightclub with his booming baritone...
...Spies. It did not take nearly so long to tumble to the idea of rebottling Bond. The most imaginative of the imitators seems likely to be Get Smart (NBC), a spoof of the already spoofish Man from U.N.C.L.E., featuring Comic Don Adams as Agent Maxwell Smart (get it?-"Get Smart!"). Blooper-Spy Smart hasn't much cool. When his captor says he does not believe there are six Coast Guard cutters on the way to the rescue, Smart asks: "Would you believe five...
...addition to Agent Smart and the returning U.N.C.L.E., Amos Burke of Burke's Law will quit the police force and become Amos Burke, Secret Agent. I Spy (NBC) will follow a top-seeded tennis amateur and his trainer who are in reality professional spy guys. Honey West (ABC) is a girl, but with Anne Francis in the role she is a fully Bonded sort of private eyeful. James West (no kin to Honey) disguises himself as a moneyed gentleman with his own railroad car, while working secretly for President Ulysses S. Grant. West heads off post-Civil War international...