Word: greenwich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...awake, the subject began talking about the plot. NBC's Frank McGee, who had been present throughout, tried to shake his story. But the more McGee questioned, the more elaborate the story became. Where had he heard about the plot? In a loft over a playhouse in Greenwich Village. What...
...entire fabrication until he was shown the film five months later. He was flabbergasted. Left of center politically, he thought himself fundamentally skeptical of Communist-conspiracy theories. Even the details did not strike any familiar chord. He does not drink any beer; he had never been to a Greenwich Village loft and knew no Harris or anyone like the man he had so vividly described...
...crablike glide to the right in search of greater political influence. The goal, he said recently, "is to maintain your ideals without becoming irrelevant, without just sitting up on a hilltop spinning theories." To that end, he has joined the Independent Democrats on his home turf in Greenwich Village, thinks now that he made a mistake in not voting for John Kennedy in 1960. "I came to the conclusion," he admitted, "that to call upon the liberals and radicals to leave the Democrats and join the Socialists was not effective...
...Lebanese immigrant, Tiny was born as Herbert Khaury in New York City 35 or 40 years ago (he is coy about his exact age). After high school, he began performing at night under such names as Larry Love and Deny Dover in dreary Greenwich Village bars. Since becoming a regular two years ago at a midtown nightspot called The Scene, he has risen to the status of court jester in the local realm of camp. Now six network television appearances, and the recent release of his first record album, have helped place him in a cultish tradition, that goes back...
...novel fails-that is, to see beyond the current public American view of sexuality as a gee-whiz genital performance. But neither your reviewer nor Updike ever really found a way out of Updike's Tarbox. I believe you ought to get some reading done away from the Greenwich commuter's bar car. There's a whole landscape of really living people outside who aren't the lost adolescents of most modern fiction...