Word: yen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Operation of the pornetwork is simple. The tapes are run through a video player at the front desk. When customers drop a pair of 100-yen coins into a slot on a TV set in their rooms, the result is instant pornography, often in glorious Fujicolor. The odds are against tuning in at the beginning of the movie-the tape runs continuously. But picking up a show in midstream makes little difference; one popular pinkie simply follows an energetic coed as she hops in and out of a series of bedrooms...
Wrong Stereotype. Johnson, now 48, soon found that the pressures were frustrating his yen for long-range thinking. "For too many college presidents the long run is next Monday," he said last September as he announced his impending retirement. Johnson will replace James R. Killian Jr. (Eisenhower's science adviser) in the part-time post of chairman of the M.I.T. Corporation. Under an understanding becoming common between college presidents and their boards, Wiesner himself expects to serve as president for only five years...
...would be an oasis of laughter. His eye for the wryly amusing incongruities of life, his zingy one-line gag-ripostes, his ardently skilled desire to be entertaining-all these have made him the leading U.S. comic playwright for more than a decade. But like the clown with the yen to play Hamlet, Simon has had the urge, and been critically urged, to try his hand at more serious drama. The result is The Gingerbread Lady, a schizoid play in which the dramatist is so busy applying plasters of wit to woefully bruised psyches that the evening is doubly robbed...
...unusual Harvard reunion, the only two Harvard men in Phu Yen, and neither of us feeling those dovish things that many of our fellow alumni felt in such abundance...
Sonny, it seems, has managed to parole his old man by spending $25,000 in the right places. He needs his father's unique talents on a dodgy job in Vegas. An upwardly mobile Mafia biggie (Peter Falk) has a yen to get in on some of the casino action and has hired Sonny to help him out. McCain doesn't know about the alliance between Sonny and the mob, but he spots the deal as a setup anyway. Like any good father, he chews out his kid about his job ("Where...