Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order of the day, in the back seat of the car as in the front rows of the Senate. Paddy Chayefsky came closest to the true life-style in Marty, when he portrayed the endless ennui of Saturday night: "So whadda ya figure on doin', Angie?" Small wonder that the '50s were the predecessor of protest, pornography, youthquakes, violence, acid rock and political upheaval...
...tiny bit pompous, so I have much to choose from." The film is just a diversion ("Traveling in Europe," he explained, "is expensive"), but Lindsay is more serious about the TV show. In Manhattan, Barbara Walters noted that her partner on Today is still undisclosed and sounded alarmed: "I wonder if NBC has thought of asking Mayor Beame to be my co-host...
...Triple Crown winner Penny Chenery Tweedy has been out of the money all year. Wonder Horse Secretariat, whom she sold to a syndicate for $6,080,000, appeared at first to be a stud failure. Then her Meadow Stable's most likely comers, Capital Asset and Capito failed to win a stake. Now it turns out even Mrs. Tweedy's husband Jack finished up the track. "We were married for 25 years and things just ground to a halt," said Penny last week from Long Island about her impending divorce from Jack, an executive V.P. of the California...
...book is full of Freeling's virtues. There are secondary characters so swiftly and seductively sketched that they threaten to run off into novels all their own. Still, most Freeling fans may wonder if much is gained by introducing the new hero. A Dressing of Diamond is likely to send them figuratively off to Strasbourg to stone the author's house and shout, "Bring back Van der Valk!" The judgment may be a scrap premature. Freeling is not quite the chameleon poet of crime he thought he was, but he remains a writer worth waiting...
There is a legend, fostered notably by a Pushkin poem and later by Rimski-Korsakov in an opera (Mozart and Sa-lieri), that Salieri poisoned Mozart. Scholars discount the thesis, but there is no doubt that Salieri hindered the career of his younger colleague. Small wonder. Salieri was a hack who saw Mozart as a threat to his own reputation. Is such historical byplay justification enough for combining the two works at this late date? Alas, no. Prima la Musica has about 15 minutes of passable music; at a length of 70 minutes, it is maddeningly vapid...