Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of an Ian Fleming villain. Short and fat, with grotesquely tiny hands and feet, he had no neck, a bald head shaped like a soccer ball, and sunken blue eyes always hidden behind dark glasses. He dressed flashily, wore elevator shoes of crocodile leather. It amused him to watch naked lady wrestlers, and he had a fetish about hygiene, insisting that all his silverware be sterilized and un touched by human hands. More than most men, Rachman loved money and women...
...bedroom mirror and a tape recorder beneath the bed. "In our two happy years," said Mandy later, "he gave me a mink coat, three mink jackets, a Persian lamb jacket, three diamond brooches, two pairs of diamond and ruby earrings, a big gold diamond and ruby watch, two diamond rings, and a Jaguar. For my 18th birthday, he gave me ?1,000 in cash...
Like many of his Harvard classmates, John Perdew took an active interest in the Negro's struggle for civil rights as it unfolded during his college years. Yet he watched the struggle as most of us must watch it, as a spectator and not as a participant. He saw, as we saw; but he did not feel, as we did not feel...
Jason and the Argonauts. The reflecting surface of the fish pond in Zeus's palace on Mount Olympus is a sort of giant-screen TV that brings in news shows from all over the Aegean. Zeus and Hera, who are just folks, watch it so much that they must surely have to keep a six-pack of nectar and a frozen ambrosia dinner close at hand. But in stead of astronauts they see Argonauts -a bearded body builder named Jason (Todd Armstrong) and his adventure-prone shipmates aboard the Argo...
...Great Escape. "We have put all our rotten eggs in one basket," says the commandant of Stalag Luft North to the senior officer of a newly arrived group of Allied officer prisoners, "and we intend to watch that basket very carefully. With your cooperation, we may all sit out the war very comfortably." But every man in the maximum-security camp knows it is an officer's duty to escape and harass the enemy. The Great Escape, based on Paul Brickhill's first-hand account, tells in almost hypnotic detail how a mixed bag of P.W.s work together...