Word: couches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Celes King is director of the Los Angeles Rumor Control and Information Center, which serves as a switchboard for the black and Mexican minority organizations. King, a chunky brown man in his 40s, sits in a storefront office on a cheap vinyl couch. I ask him if the blacks are happy. King laughs bitterly. He points out that juvenile unemployment in the black community is 25% to 30%; adult unemployment is 12% to 15%. Transportation is a big part of the problem. Los Angeles is a horizontal city, and it's huge. Most industrial jobs are ten to 20 miles...
Later, sprawled on the couch in his hotel suite, Marvin allowed that his fee for Paint Your Wagon was $1,000,000, plus a percentage. He likes the movie for other reasons too: "I was getting tired of being the heavy, always killing guys and slapping broads around...
...their competition for new customers, officials of banks and independent credit-card companies have concocted many new ideas that go far beyond the campus. Credit cards can now be used to rent a wedding hall in Reno or to, buy an hour on a psychiatrist's couch, a can of fishing worms in San Francisco, or a tour of Washington...
...heroic essence that Wayne manages to convey. Today, like "war," the word "hero" is usually preceded by a disinfectant: "anti." Not to the Duke. Conflict is made to be won; heroes are created to be the uncommon man sans imperfection. "I stay away from nuances," he says. "From psychoanalyst-couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing only." As Wayne sees film heroism, "Paul Newman would have been a much more important star if he hadn't always tried to be an antihero, to show the human feeta clay." No one will ever see Wayne's feeta clay?...
Michael Collins, 38, owes his couch on the moonship to a bout of bad health. He was to have been a member of the Apollo 8 crew, which made man's first orbits around the moon last Christmas. A paralyzing bone spur in the neck sent Collins to the hospital in June 1968 for a risky operation, however, and Bill Anders took his place. The surgery was a complete success, and Collins was back on full flight status by last November. It was much too late for him to resume his original place with the Apollo 8 crew?...