Word: winstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recreational sex. But mere electric shocks, drills and whippings are not the end of his training. As the humor turns from the disparaging to the sinister, he is given a final loyalty test: he must kill his co-worker and confidant. Will he rebel? Or has his brain, like Winston's in Nineteen Eighty-Four, been washed and blow-dried? Suffice to say that only a computer could find the ending happy. Along the terror-ridden corridors of power, Walker, 57, offers an unusual amalgam of merriment and rage. His voice is occasionally too strident, possibly the result of many...
Director: Yeah, yeah. He wins, the commies gain strength, civil war, and we're in another land war in Southeast Asia. Apocalypse Again, hey? Well, I'm not all that thrilled about our "moderate alternative." She isn't exactly the "Winston Churchill of Southeast Asia" either...
...steady users. "The biggest problem with doing this stuff is boredom," says Attorney Robert Gelfman, 54, who pedals a bike in his Scarsdale, N.Y., home three or four times a week. His solution: placing a book on an adjacent music stand. Says Gelfman: "I've gotten through all the Winston Churchill volumes on the Second World War, and I just finished the Jane Austen novels...
...kidvid heap. In the first of a planned series of notable children's stories narrated by well-known stars, Random House this fall released Margery Williams' The Velveteen Rabbit, read by Meryl Streep. Despite minimal animation, the show is made irresistible by Streep's touching narration and George Winston's graceful music. (Still to come: Jack Nicholson reading Kipling's Just So Stories and Cher doing The Ugly Duckling.) A video version of The Macmillan Illustrated Almanac for Kids is an intriguing hodgepodge of informational segments on such diverse topics as why volcanoes happen and how to blow huge soap...
...along I saw these and many other precautions as part of a losing battle. "My grandfather was bald," I figured. "So shall I be bald." I tried to console myself with visions of great bald men from history: Dwight Eisenhower, Winston Churchill, Benjamin Franklin, John Quincy Adams, Alan Brinkley. But to no avail. I was just not in their league. I would just be bald. Old and bald...