Word: sob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large as itself. Out of the egg hatched a giraffe carrying a banner inscribed "Legalize Abortion." The Lampoon seemed instantly young and vital, and chuckles of observers could be heard in the Starr Book Shop. But suddenly The Harvard Lampoon convulsed into a ball, emitted a single gargantuan sob, and rolled, dead, into a wastepaper basket...
...show like Peyton Place, ABC's twice-weekly soap opera, there's no future for a female character after she's finally married the father of her child. That unlucky event came to pass recently for Dorothy Malone, the show's sob-racked mother figure ever since it opened 3½ years ago-and she has been written out of the action as of early June. In to fill the vacuum will go able Movie Veteran Barbara Rush, 38, who has a string of first-rate acting jobs to her credit (The Bramble Bush...
Died. Fannie Hurst, 78, one of the most popular, if not most highly acclaimed, U.S. woman authors in the past half-century; in Manhattan. To many critics she was the sob sister of American letters, and her 30 novels and countless short stories little more than glorified True Confessions pap-orphan servant girls (Lummox, 1923), the secret love of a married man (Back Street, 1930), mother love (Imitation of Life, 1933). But her novels sold many millions of copies, and magazines paid $70,000 for the serial rights. "What success I enjoy," she once said, "comes from my inner convictions...
...best of the year, but Brooks tricks it up with flashy dissolves-a bus becomes a moving train, a prostitute metamorphizes into Perry's mother-that give the film a slick and slippery surface. In Cold Blood, moreover, unnecessarily belabors the arguments against capital punishment by introducing a sob-brother journalist who wearyingly articulates the message...
Viet Nam has become the profane cow of U.S. theater. Onstage it seems to inspire polemic frenzy, puerile logic and sob-opera bathos. That was true of the off-Broadway musical Viet Rock, and it is even truer of We Bombed In New Haven, a first play by Joseph Heller, whose Catch-22 was a novel of comic pitchblende. His lackluster drama is a kind of catchall-22, a wastebasket version of antiwar cliches too feeble for use in the novel. While the production is securely mounted by the Yale School of Drama Repertory Theater, student actors are scarcely...