Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aside is counterweighted with repellents-tantrums fueled by Dexamyl, catastrophic marriages, endless breakdowns and cancellations. Near the end, Frank reports, one of Garland's children begged her to make a promised stage appearance, if only for a group of wistful paraplegics. Judy's reply: "If they can wheel them in, they can wheel them out." Such anecdotes diminish both biographer and biographee and make the reader wonder why this sorrowful woman was worth 700 pages of heavy industry. Is the neon gossip meant to illuminate the warts, Judy and all? Or is it the mandatory downer for some...
...smattering of whores, highrollers and assorted hangers-on from all over. They come by jets screaming in from Houston and New Orleans, or in mud-covered Winnebago trailers swaying up the Alaska Highway. They come in ancient station wagons, the kids frisking in back, the husband hunched over the wheel and the exhausted wife dozing fitfully in the front seat. They are the latest breed to head for Alaska with the burning desire to strike it rich. Their aim is to work on-or feed off-Alaska's vast oilfields and its great new pipeline. Many will never...
...great Condon, but it is good Condon. The murdered dude was a whiz-bang insurance salesman, the best-dressed knight of the Million Dollar Round Table and a sure bet to pull down $ 150,000 a year. Naturally his wife wants him back. Using a computerized electronic prayer wheel that she whips up with her soldering iron, she petitions all gods ancient and modern, known or rumored, and becomes (to the surprise of the gods themselves) the first soul in recorded eternity to get a message through...
...current cultural watchdog of the Czech Communist Party. He tried his own talent and wrote the screenplay of a new film directed by K. Stekly (who is well in his 70s and the only director who agreed to do the job). The film is called The Enemy at the Wheel and is supposed to be an allegory on the 1968 events. The story goes something like this: a gang of cab drivers (former intellectuals and criminals) arrange the firing of a manager and the foreman of a garage, both devoted communists. The foreman's wife is seduced by her former...
...devices are called quartz watches because instead of the standard balance wheel, they rely on an oscillating current in a small battery-charged quartz crystal. The current in turn powers a tiny integrated circuit, which emits pulses that regulate either standard minute and hour hands or a digital display. The watches are accurate to within a minute a year v. one to two minutes a week for standard models...