Word: tysons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Condon's hero is Tynan Bryson, a Welsh movie star-an obvious fiction, since there is no such thing as a Welsh movie star. Tyson has had only one failure in his 46 pictures (a Hungarian director persuaded him to portray Thomas Jefferson as Richard Nixon might have played him). And he has finally achieved his and every other actor's dream: his contract calls for him to receive exactly 100% of the total gross of his next production...
...copulation explosion, Tyson has never gone more than 17 hours without committing adultery. His wife is Actress Caterina Largo, who possesses, among other things, "a behind stuffed with the golden fleece of erotic dreams for the Mediterranean peoples," and shoulders so flawless that they "reminded Swedish men of winter nights in boarding schools, and English women of golden hockey captains." Their director, Albert McCobb, is a grotesque gourmand who is devoted to Roquefort cheese but spurns Danish blue because it is "non-ewe." McCobb may remind some readers of Alfred Hitchcock-just as an actor named Chuck Moses...
...Tyson is at work on his latest and worst film-a tale of New York suitably titled Bronek's Cheer-when he suddenly begins getting threatening messages and attempts are made on his life. Suspense survives for a time amid the farce, then separates like fragments from a grenade. What Condon fans will enjoy are his extravagant prose arias, including the account of a typical McCobb breakfast. For rhapsodic and inventive list making* it is unequaled by anything since the Glass family's medicine cabinet in Franny and Zooey...
Shooting exceptionally well, the psyched-up Crimson raced to a 52-36 lead with ten minutes left in the game. But then Dartmouth guards Henry Tyson and Karl Steinmanis put on effective ball-hawking pressure and the lead shrunk rapidly...
Park came to Harvard in 1965 from a three year stint at Boston College. In the first fall of his tutelage, Harvard's defenders picked off a record 16 passes. This year, All-Ivy safetymen John Tyson and Tom Williamson teamed with Tom Wynne, Mike Ananis and Bill Cobb for 23 steals...