Word: towerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a bottle of Pabst. From coast to coast, mashed potatoes appear on menus as "snowflake, creamery-whipped potatoes"; all vegetables, whether frozen, canned or left over from yesterday, are called "garden fresh." In Minneapolis, broiled rock lobster tails turn into "Queen of Hearts"; in Los Angeles, capon becomes "Tower of London"; in New York, string beans metamorphose into "Long Johns." The Hawaiian Hut in Portland, Me., offers its Special Tiki Chicken on this verbal platter: "Truly a dish fit for the gods-beyond description." But any diner could describe it easily-chicken with bean sprouts...
Under the direction of Producer-Director Milton Fruchtman, a crew of 25 worked nights for two months to get 25 miles of film and 650 still pictures, using a camera atop a 64-foot-high movable aluminum tower. Both the script and the overall editing are the work of a former TIME art critic, Alexander Eliot. Now a freelance writer of magazine articles and an author of books...
Eliot spent several hours a day for six weeks atop the tower within touching distance of the ceiling, contemplating the frescoes as Michelangelo himself saw them in his four years of labor...
...Wednesday morning, after a sleepless election night, I saw the sun rise over Harkness Tower. Early in the day I bought a post card with Stiles College on it to send to my mother, and boarded the creaky New Haven railroad to Boston...
...lyrics. Somewhat world-weary and very world-wary, they capsule the Paxton mixture of soft sympathies and hard ironies. Among the best in this consistently rewarding collection: the wistful Now That I've Taken My Life, in which a man who gave up a free and happy ivory-tower existence, "pleading reality," tries to convince himself that he likes "solid-gold women" and his hollow new success...