Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WAIT UNTIL DARK. A blind woman (Audrey Hepburn), the nearly helpless victim of a trio of terrorists led by Alan Arkin, tries to even the score by removing all the light bulbs in her house but forgets the one in the refrigerator-with chilling results...
...cheapness and portability of the transistor set has given the medium a new mobility and a new dimension-and a vast measure of influence. For Peru's 12 million inhabitants, there are more than 600 radio stations, and radio reaches the ears of virtually every man, woman and child in the country.* In Guatemala, six times as many people listen to radio as read newspapers. Black Africa, which had fewer than 400,000 radios in 1955, has at least 6,000,000 today. In rice field or rain forest, compound or kraal, the mere possession of a transistor radio...
Neurosurgeons generally were skeptical of Dr. Murray's report. They recalled a similar case of a woman operated on at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital in 1901 who recovered for several years, but then suffered a relapse. They insisted that in animal experiments severed ends of cord had been snugly sewn together but that regeneration had been brief at best, due to formation of scar tissue. If Dr. Murray's spinal-cord repair stands the test of time, it will be an impressive achievement indeed...
...full weight of irony crashing down on a brilliant but ambitious scholar. "A really distinguished mistress would spare me ten years of setbacks and sordid intrigue," says Lecadieu. He gets one, a politician's wife. He also gets caught. Exiled from Paris, forced to marry a worn-out woman, he ends up a wreck teaching Latin texts to schoolboys. He can't even remember what his ambition...
...produced clichés. The interplanetary observers of The Life of Man saw human beings behaving like ants. In The Departure, the dead queue up to board airplanes. Typically, Maurois chose his biographical subjects for personality, the test being "whether I can get on with this man or this woman." Therefore, the biographies, like his stories, suffered from an excess of sympathy...