Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fearful that forces guarding the Pentagon would spray them with Mace, the hippies concocted a counterspray called lysergic acid crypto ethylene (LACE). Purportedly a purplish aphrodisiac brewed by the flipped-out pharmacist of hippiedom, Augustus Owsley Stanley III, LACE "makes you want to take off your clothes, kiss people and make love." Other hippie plots included jamming gun barrels with flowers and an attempt to "kidnap L.B.J. while wrestling him to the ground and pulling his pants off. We will attack with noisemakers, water pistols, marbles, bubble-gum wrappers and bazookas. Sorcerers, swamis, priests, warlocks, rabbis, gurus, witches, alchemists, speed...
Thursday, October 19 CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Two chain-gang fugitives (Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis) are shackled together during a five-day flight in Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones...
...Died. Stanley Morison, 78, British typographer, designer of Times New Roman, one of the world's most widely used type faces; after a long illness; in London. Compiler of several definitive histories of typography, Morison set out in 1932 to develop for the London Times, a type face that would be "masculine, English, direct, simple, and absolutely free from faddishness." His design was all he promised, and was adopted by the Times and literally thousands of other publications, including TIME...
...stole a home-grown English property: The Great British Train Robbery (TIME, April 21), a plausibly clever re-creation of the 1963 heist of ?2,631,784 from a Royal Mail train. In Robbery, the Limeys have tried to recapture the story for their own, using the talents of Stanley Baker, Joanna Pettet and a regiment of able character actors, and the cinema verite style of Director Peter Yates. The result, unfortunately, is a hot property gone tepid with time...
Star and Co-Producer Stanley Baker, who saunters through the film as the master criminal replete with belted trench coat and salt-and-pepper mustache, is a man both obviously enamored of his project and absolutely blind to the faults of the beloved. With tedious attention to detail, Robbery examines every minor maneuver of the criminals, watches a handcuff screw turn 17 times before it is opened, sees every last bag of loot passed from hand to hand into waiting trucks. And after playing it taut upper lip until the last moment, the film goes soft when...