Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concentrating on civil rights, the bouncy In Sepia Dallas has raised circulation from 5,000 to an estimated 22,500 in three years; by contrast, the bland Dallas Express has slipped from 9,000 to 4,900. Sensitive to the growing pride in race, the papers are using the word Negro much less than before; the Amsterdam News has banned it altogether in favor of Afro-American. "Our emphasis is on self-determination within the black community," says Nigerian-born Simon Anekwe, who writes a column on Africa for the News...
Fare Games. The ticket takers bank on the average American's ready belief that just about anything can be got wholesale (airline tickets cannot). Often the crooks pass the word around that they are part-time "travel consultants" authorized to sell "discount" tickets at 10% to 40% under regular fares. One Los Angeles con man had been making the rounds of airport bars and restaurants, offering to sacrifice his commission and sell tickets cheap so that he could "build up a large sales report." Another imaginative fellow liked to tell prospects he was in the all-expenses-paid type...
Hoping to stop the phonies at the reservations counters, the airlines are offering clerks a $25 reward for each ticket they spot against a list of the stolen blanks' serial numbers-which is the only way they can be positively detected. Meanwhile the lines are spreading the word that the discount tickets are no bargain. Passengers caught with them can be arrested for using stolen property, though unwitting travelers get off easily. Last month TWA investigators caught up with two young girls who had made it to Madrid on bogus tickets they had bought in Los Angeles. Convinced that...
...story is full of opportunities for drama, but the audience has only the script's word that The Naked Runner is a suspense film. Other than swiveling a pair of nervous ferret eyes, Sinatra shows no hint of emotion. Around him are a cast of inept unknowns, many of whom seem to believe that such dialogue as "Get dressssed, ve are goink for a drive," is German for sinister. Director Sidney Furie confuses tension and pretension, hokes up the story with odd-angle camera shots-of a man bicycling alone across a huge airstrip, a confrontation with the enemy...
Dappled Nouns. If art is Nabokov's muse, words are his mania: puns, anagrams (he has pointed out with glee that T. S. Eliot is almost "toilets" spelled backward), "word golf" (get from "live" to "dead" in five steps*), bilingual and trilingual double-entendres. More seriously, words of any language are vital possessions...