Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flying back from a visit to Ecuador, got a cable informing him of Young's explanation. Naturally believing his ambassador and relieved at hearing that this had been only a chance encounter, rather than a violation of the U.S. pledge on the P.L.O., Vance authorized State Department Spokesman Tom Reston to release Young's explanation. He did so Monday noon...
Curiously, British Playwright Tom Stoppard has used the same metaphor to make essentially the same point in his Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1977), a 70-minute theater piece for actors and orchestra. Stoppard enlivened his schematic political lesson with wit, and so, at times, does Fellini. In the film's first half, a visiting TV documentary team interviews the musicians and gets a lively response. A flutist turns a cartwheel. A drummer attacks the piano as a "chatterbox." An insomniac trumpeter confides that with his instrument, "a clinker is death." Once anarchy takes hold, however, the idiosyncratic individuals...
Last week Yankee Catcher Thurman Munson, 32, was killed in a plane crash near Canton, Ohio, and quickly received the encomiums he so craved in life. "Probably the best clutch hitter in baseball," said Los Angeles Dodgers Manager Tom Lasorda. "A wonderful, enormously likable guy, and a truly great ballplayer," said Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn...
...1960s, when its editors' carefree irreverence suited the disillusion and cynicism of the times. The magazine's New Journalism brought the techniques of the novelist to matters of fact-profiles were not concentrates of fact gathering but freewheeling, pinwheeling displays of the author's prejudices. Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese could be wonderfully readable ("I don't deal in direct quotations," explained Talese, "I'm into what people think"). Meanwhile, Esquire's black-humor covers became intentionally outrageous, such as posing a benign Lieut. William Calley with a group of Asian children. The magazine...
...Tom Paxton and Ramblin' Jack Elliott. Aug. 9,8 and 10:30 p.m. $5.50 in advance, $6 at door...