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...Civil War and Israel in The Fifties are rather skimpy, almost as though Wilson were too busy to keep up with himself in his journals. But there are some striking encounters along the way. In Paris he discusses Indochina with Andre Malraux and observes that the Frenchman has a tic that "is something like a snort from the nose, and when he becomes excited and voluble, it sounds like the exhaust from a car." He visits W.H. Auden in a completely unheated New York City loft. "Wystan started up some queer kind of little stove...
...That may help explain why the same shows keep reappearing. Password has resurfaced as Super Password, and among the retreads planned for next fall are The New Hollywood Squares and We Love the Dating Game. Death is only a temporary state in game-show heaven. Dan Enright, producer of Tic Tac Dough and The Joker's Wild, plans to retire his two aging shows at the end of this season but is not taking it as a defeat. "They are two perennials," he says. "I'll just rest them a while and bring them back in a few years...
John Foster Dulles was there. Foster used to chew his cud, and he had a tic over his eye. I can see him now as he sat back and said, "But anyone who claws his way to the top in that Soviet jungle will prove formidable." As it turned out, Khrushchev was by far the most intelligent, imaginative and creative Soviet leader I've ever...
...reiteration of once successful jokes and pleasantries is peculiarly Middle Western. The familiar rumble fills the lunchtime air at the Ding Dong, the Hi Ho, the Short Stop, the Tic Toc. "But we have no Dew Drop Inn," laments Lucille McClain, the hostess at the Palmer House. She is pouring another cup for Matt Norcia, who has probably heard 3 million times the rest of the 3:30 coffee crowd's joke about his family connections "in Palermo ho ho." It is a sociability with built-in defenses and proscribed limits. At another table some post-'60s people visiting from...
...about to be demolished. It had to make way for a hyperspace bypass. What happened next is too horrible to recount, but several hundred thousand inhabitants of the planet earth are familiar with the tale. That is a conservative estimate of the audience for Douglas Adams' 1979 luna tic masterpiece, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a 1980 sequel, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and a 1982 sequel, Life, the Universe and Everything. The Hitchhiker's Trilogy, which began as a radio serial, has grown to embrace a television series, record albums, several theatrical productions...