Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book's slight remaining plot teases the reader into wondering not "What will happen next?" but "What is really happening now?" What is happening is that Percy is using his plot as a witty excuse for exploring the wilder woes and wiles of Southern Negro servants, Northern liberal busybodies, professional religionists, disenchanted humanists ("Being geniuses of the orgasm is far more demanding than Calvinism"), and, most entertainingly of all, the subtle differences in outlook between the North and South...
...Christopher, 25, had to stand up there and howl with the rest of the Wild Ones. But ever since he married the boss, Sybil Burton Christopher, 37, Jordan has been privileged to sit around her Manhattan bedlam, Arthur, and admire the plangent din. Last week the Wild Ones were wilder than usual as the ridiculously successful joint celebrated its first anniversary. Jordan and Sybil sliced into a birthday cake to the cheers of such music lovers as Leonard Bernstein and Disk Jockey Murray the K, who kept trying to discuss esthetics above the entertainment. Caterwauled Sybil: "If you can talk...
...screenplay started twelve years and countless versions ago as a literal adaptation of the novel. The late Ben Hecht had three bashes at it. It was then completely rejiggered by Billy Wilder, who in turn got rewritten by Joe (Catch-22) Heller. To no avail. By last week the script du jour was the product of Terry Southern, Wolf Mankowitz and John Law. Except that Peter Sellers has winged most of his scenes, John Huston is redoing his, and Woody Allen is working up an altogether new concept...
Dean Martin can sure liven up a picture. In Kiss Me, Stupid--Billy Wilder's long awaited Armageddon--a cop walked up to Martin, who said, "Haven't you found that Sinatra...
...yard's Sands Street honky-tonk strip-where all real sailors prayed to go to when they died. Says Mrs. Martha Dimmler, Big Martha to Navymen of three wars who packed the Red Mill Bar: "It used to be that no place in the world had wilder, drunker, more wonderful sailors than...