Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sudden impulse to be a Senator, he is too experienced in the ways of politics to barge into a race without assurance of substantial support. Most California politicians assume that Salinger's real inspiration came from Jesse ("Big Daddy") Unruh, speaker of the state assembly and Democratic Party wheel, who-until Salinger showed up-seemed to be losing a backstage struggle for party power to Governor Pat Brown...
Jouncing along the dusty, crushed-rock ribbon of road behind the wheel of a green Ford pickup truck, Hatcher M. James Jr., 41, an American AID officer in Dinh Tuong province, surveyed with satisfaction the peasants on either side peacefully tilling fields of green beans, tomatoes, melons. He waved at Vietnamese small fry, moonfaced boys and graceful schoolgirls in black sateen pants, who broke into excited smiles as the truck sped by and called out in English "hello hello" and "okay okay...
...intermezzo, Sophia plays a rich bitch who tries to persuade her bohemian lover that she doesn't care a fig for her husband's filthy lucre and all the disgusting bourgeois things it can buy. Like, say, the Rolls-Royce they are riding in. "Here, take the wheel," she announces grandly. "I don't care. I love you." Maybe so. But by a strange coincidence the affair ends up on the rocks when the car ends up in a ditch...
...remarkable thing about Tony's new, improved career is that he has done it all without learning to sing any better. His voice is as flat as it is strong; his timing slips and falters like a water wheel in a drought. He delivers a song clearly, cleanly, warmly, paying great heed to the lyrics, making up in feeling what he lacks in old-fashioned talent...
...Monk's around. Rollins is a Rosicrucian who contemplates the East River, letting his telephone ring in his ear for hours while he studies birds from his window. Mingus is so obsessed with goblins from the white world that person to person he is as perverse as a roulette wheel; his analyst wrote the notes for his last record jacket. Coltrane is a health addict?doing pushups, scrubbing his teeth, grinding up cabbages...