Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Punching the Producer. Members of the studio audience, who themselves tend to resemble a road company of Marat/Sade, are invited into the "Beef Box" to vent further ill logic, ill manners, neologisms and non sequiturs. Guests are frequently told to "get lost" or they steam off the set voluntarily; one threw a phone at Joe (it missed), punched the producer in the mouth. During last year's Watts riot, Pyne displayed a gun on screen in front of a Negro guest and was himself bounced for a week. Pyne does not deny charges that he prefers heat over light...
Poetry, like steam, is made under pressure. In Russia the pressure of totalitarian control on a rapidly enlarging spirit of freedom keeps poetry hissing-hot. Evgeny Evtushenko first blew his stack back in 1957, and since then vigorous young poets have come geysering out of the masses with a frequency alarming to the Soviet regime...
...Ludwig Erhard cherishes none so highly as Wahllokomotive (vote puller). Indeed, over the past two decades he has chugged well ahead of the rest of his party, helping to pull it to victory behind a prosperous trail of cigar smoke. Last week the Erhard engine ran dangerously low on steam...
...British thrive on adversity, then the Cunard Steam-Ship Co. Ltd., the grand old lady of transatlantic travel, should thrive. With unusual candor, Sir Basil Smallpeice, chairman of the Cunard group since November, recently stated the dimensions of adversity. Passenger operations have lost $40 mil lion in the past five years. Cargo ship ments and other sources of revenue turned the loss into a slight profit, but, said Sir Basil, Cunard has only been kept going by the sale of investments and property and by tax recoveries...
...rule was eliminated, causing Van Alen to complain: "They're not playing VASSS. It's not my system at all." He was nowhere nearly as upset as Pancho Gonzales was when Gonzales discovered that he was required to serve from the 3-ft. line-thereby taking the steam out of his serve, the hardest in the game. Gonzales blew his first-round match to Chilean Luis Ayala, 21-18, then blew his top. He challenged heckling spectators to put their muscles where their mouths were, stormed over to Wally Dill, director of the pro tour, and snarled...