Word: turned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position of not being able to defend a formulation which seemed to many people unnecessarily, and perhaps even intentionally, oblique. Yet it struck me as unthinkable that I should repudiate the work of my own principle advisory committee. so much for this period of what I hope will turn out to have been only temporary impotence...
...Friday ritual in Tinsley Green. The tourney began in the morning; at high noon (the hour Sussex taverns open), the referee cried "Smug!" and the tournament ended. The rules are wondrously simple: 49 marbles are placed in the "pitch" (ring) and each member of the competing teams takes his turn at trying to knock one out. Shooting is a thumbs-only proposition-a flick of the wrist constitutes a "fudge" (foul) and disqualifies the contestant for that round. As in pool, each successful shot merits another, and the team that picks up the most marbles wins...
...along with Director Tony Richardson and Sunday Times Arts Columnist Alan Brien. As soon as Brien had a leg up on Fleet Street, he brought along his protégé. Barnes' reputation for fluency was instantly evidenced in music, drama and dance criticism."He just liked to turn on a verbal tap," recalls Brien, "bottle the words that come out and then begin filling the next bottle...
...Assassination Bureau may not have been designed for Saturday matinees, but it fits. A turn-of-the-century adventure spoof about an organization that kills "only to destroy evil," Bureau genially jokes itself along to an absolutely smashing conclusion aboard a giant Zeppelin, where Good Guy Oliver Reed battles Baddies Curt Jurgens and Telly Savalas with swords, fists and some unlikely ingenuity. During the course of the proceedings, there are enough bombings, murders and conflagrations to satisfy the most television-sated kid in the crowd. Even some parents may get a kick out of Bureau, especially if they come prepared...
Each light was in turn dismantled and packed up. With each dismantling, the room got darker. Tim sat on a bench next to the nearly dead fire. He looked at no one. He said nothing. He was totally in shadows...