Word: entertaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reclining in rumpled old clothes and a shapeless nightcap in a Devon farmhouse, Partridge gives admirers the last word in biography: "I always wanted to become a writer, and I consider myself to be one." Before he began to assemble his reference books, "meant to entertain while they instruct," the Oxford-educated scholar lectured for two years at Manchester and London universities. But he quickly tired of repeating himself and tried his hand at short stories ("quite passable. Well, the New York Times thought so") and a novel ("plain bloody awful...
Still, One on One is a fairly decent movie, even it if lacks redeeming artistic value. It succeeds mostly because it does entertain, despite the predictable romance and occasionally banal dialogue. The film is fast-paced and even funny upon occasion, as in the scene which features our hero driving a drunken, nymphomaniacal athletic department secretary home from a party. He has his eyes on the road, but her eyes are on something else, leading to a rather embarassing situation...
After the bandages were removed, Joyce turned out to be yet another genius with a domineering wife, and Nora objected when he tried to entertain Cerf with his Irish ballads. "A great fight started when Joyce went over to the piano," Cerf recounts. "There was a long bench in front of it, and Nora grabbed one end and Joyce the other-both pulling in opposite directions. Suddenly she deliberately let go, and Joyce went staggering back and landed on his behind. Nora said, 'Maybe this will teach you a lesson, you drunken ...' " As she saw Cerf...
...result, Moses and his family now live in a rambling old University house on nearby Francis Ave., the same house Hale Champion, former financial vice-president of the University and now undersecretary of HEW, lived in while he was here, and where Moses hopes to be able to entertain students. Within a couple of years, the University plans to sport an on-campus freshmen dean's residence--after the Prince House, which is now the General Education Office, is packed up and moved down the block and "bolted down," Moses adds--to reinforce his image as something more than...
...Conn. Both residences are furnished in what one disapproving family member calls "Howard Johnson decorator stuff." Another upgrades it to "Bloomingdale's pleasant." Sulzberger drinks vodka on the rocks and eats hamburgers at his favorite restaurant, Manhattan's 21 Club (at $9.25 a burger). He prefers to entertain at home, however, barbecuing steaks for Stamford visitors (mostly relatives and Times colleagues) and working wonders with vegetables. "I can't wait for Wednesday and all the recipes in Living." says the chef. "I was really fond of the artichoke recipes, but as soon as we started running them...