Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wearing a striped blazer decorated with a yellow rose, she a big-shouldered coat, sequined Chiquita Banana shoes and a green straw hat. After presenting the $350,000 they had raised for earthquake relief for Nicaragua to the Pan American Development Foundation in Washington, Rolling Stone Mick Jogger and his look-alike Nicaraguan wife Bianco decided to try the exclusive Sans Souci restaurant. Paul DeLisle, the maître d'hôtel, was not impressed. "No reservation; no tie," he said, turning them away...
...qualifications-for instance, that he is a reputable physician, psychologist or marriage counselor. The patient should also verify that the clinic has a good reputation, that treatment will be confidential, and that no unrealistic promises of cure are made. He also advises patients to shun clinics advertising in the yellow pages or in cheap magazines. But the only real solution, he points out, is to shut down the street-corner clinics. That goal, he admits, could hardly be accomplished through lawsuits by injured clients. "Who would want to testify that he was impotent?" Masters asks...
Hale Champion, vice president for Financial Affairs, wearing a fancy yellow-knit shirt, chirped in helpfully, "I should tell you, I have the Athletic Department budget on my desk...
...raucous, picaresque, raunchy kind of charm, at least initially. Two black con men (Raymond St. Jacques and Philip Thomas) descend on an Arkansas town called El Dorado during the early '30s to start a numbers bank. Thomas has a rather meandering love affair with a "high yellow" woman (Freda Payne), leaving him little time to help St. Jacques fight off racist law officers and greedy white gangsters. St. Jacques, who also directed, works in some nice period feeling and a couple of quick, glancing social asides about the daily indignities of being black. After a promising few first minutes...
...Watson is probably the greatest living flat-picking guitar player. His performances are invariably distinguished not just be occasional bursts of dazzling speed or by audience-winning tricks, but by an unerring sense of timing and mood which might enable him to make a country rendition of the Boston Yellow Pages sound interesting. His smooth, if not polished singing style offers relief from country singers who sound something like the cows they are singing about, and his interpretations of contemporary folk music are as successful and perhaps even more pleasing than his classic renditions of traditional country romances, evangelical songs...