Word: tacking
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...tried a new tack. Remembering that Mr. Updike had graduated from Harvard the same year as Ted Kennedy (1954). We asked if the two had known each other "No," he answered. "I knew nobody...
...Notorious Landlady is Kim Novak, and her tenant. Tack Lemmon, does not ask for anything more until Scotland Yard prods him into some horribly funny discoveries...
...moment he announced his candidacy for Ohio's at-large congressional seat, Republican Robert Taft Jr., 45, let everyone know that he was anti-Kennedy. Displaying an inherited disdain for expensive, expansive government, he attacked President Kennedy for fiscal irresponsibility, "strongarm methods'' and trying to tack "Government controls onto all his programs." Last week, after easily winning his party's nomination. Taft discovered that he would have to keep right on being anti-Kennedy. For Ohio Democrats, to everyone's surprise, nominated an obscure Cleveland real estate dealer whose main political asset is his name...
...Algiers and Oran, the Secret Army has used every conceivable method of murder, killing 1,000 Moslems since the ceasefire, with the avowed purpose of provoking Moslem mobs into taking revenge and unleashing a racial war. So far, the terrorists have failed. Last week the frustrated S.A.O. tried another tack: its gunmen sauntered down the cities' streets shooting Moslem women and young girls-killing 18 and wounding...
...Mostel is its comic axis. Seemingly composed of double chins that reach to his knees, Mostel is a paradoxically dainty and light-footed man whose humors merge the ballet with the pratfall. Whether he is rolling his eyes like berserk marbles, mincing archly in his tunic, or playing tick tack toe on the bare midriff of Lucienne Bridou (the nubilest Roman of them all), Mostel tickles playgoers into eruptive laughter. The show's music lacks distinction, but no one will seriously think of humming once the cast's six girls undulate onstage. Costumer Tony Walton wisely lets nature...