Word: tango
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilson was more at ease with women below his social and intellectual level. Determinedly throwing off a puritanical upbringing, he tirelessly pursued sexual conquests, grappling in the backs of taxis, making passes in tango palaces. His most satisfying affair was with a woman he later wrote about in Memoirs of Hecate County, a waitress from a Brooklyn slum who had a husband in Sing Sing...
Died. Leroy Anderson, 66, pop composer-conductor; of lung cancer; in Woodbury, Conn. Anderson launched what became a long career in Tin Pan Alley with Sleigh Ride, in 1947, an instantly popular orchestral piece that established his relentlessly bouncy style. His 1952 Blue Tango, featuring 50 violins, became the first instrumental to top the record charts...
...enjoy The Towering Inferno, but the view that the movie itself is a monument to bullshit and concupiscence is unfounded. It's very easy to hype a popular film by calling it a cinematic masterpiece, as Pauline Kael has done so unfortunately with movies like Shampoo and Last Tango in Paris. The disaster film is an urban adventure, like a police or hospital melodrama, but the very magniture of the pseudo-events it chronicles--possible only on screen--give it a dignity beyond its intrinsic merit. When combined with an ingratiating morality, a wealth of invention in the heroism department...
...predictions, this was going to be THE year for Harvard baseball. I his was going to be the year that Harvard did more than a quick tango with the great teams of college ball before making an exit out the back door at the NCAA World Series in Omaha...
...Last Tango in Paris, at 5:15 and 9:45 p.m., and A Streetcar Named Desire...