Word: superable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...publicity stunt which quite literally ended all publicity stunts isn't even mentioned by Sack. At 1:00 a.m. on the morning of last May 4, 15,000 students began to collect outside the Sack Savoy for a 4 a.m. preview of Casino Royale--free, if you wore a "super sleuth trenchcoat." With the aid of police, a bona fide riot broke out. Meanwhile the theatre's assistant manager, having filled the 2,800 seats to capacity, began rolling the film early. He later told police, "They were fighting in the aisles every time someone left his seat. [About...
...behind Evergreen (TIME, March 29) and not far ahead of Cosmopolitan. But Ginzburg protests that Evergreen's sex is "somewhat excremental," while Avant-Garde is pitched at the "genital level. Sexy, yes. Dirty, no." To prove his point, he says that forthcoming issues will carry an eight-page super-fold-out of a life-sized woman, as well as details on a private collection of pubic hairs garnered from celebrities...
Harvard coach Jack Barnaby accepts the role of underdog. "Princeton had a super freshman team last year," said Barnaby. "On paper they look like the team to beat...
...years, E.A.A. has compiled an estimable safety record, survived the turbulence of independence from Britain, built up a jet-age fleet that includes three Super VC-10s and three Comet 4s. Grandly declaring itself "the fastest-growing airline in black Africa," it has more than doubled revenues from 1962 to last year's record $36.4 million. And few airlines can claim anything like its earnings record. For each of the past 14 years, E.A.A. has had a comfortable profit; last year it cleared an estimated...
Surrounding The Bald Soprano are two lesser creations, one camp and one original. The former, Kenneth Koch's George Washington Crossing the Delaware, recites the story of this lackluster incident in history with a super-patriotic relish, thereby mocking the origin and purpose of this country. While the actors, under the direction of Gary Byrne, do not often look at each other and usually smile or pause to forewarn the audience of a punch line, quite a bit of Koch's zaniness gets through. At one point. Terrence McNally, as the title character, heroically informs his soldiers, "We have nothing...