Word: friendlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have a near-octogenarian friend who maintains that when he lived in the Sydney suburb of Balmain as a youngster, he was fascinated by the family's female servant...
This well-endowed young woman, when preparing to meet her beau, would stand the candlestick on the said protuberances whilst combing her hair. In those days, both skirts and hair were long, and, apparently, other statistics were in like proportion. At any rate, my old friend refers to them as the good old days...
...year-old girl, played by Henry Fonda's promising 22 -year-old daughter Jane, who is assaulted by two hoodlums and raped by one of them. The dribbling scenes that follow and that involve the girl's upset parents, her inquisitive kid sister, her caddish boy friend, the guilty hoodlum, an uncharitable community and the girl's own hysterical qualms, do very little to justify what gave rise to them...
Consultation. At one time Myrick, who is married and has four daughters and a son, actually retired from the insurance business. In 1949 he stepped down from a vice-presidency of the Mutual of New York to help Herbert Hoover, an old friend, enlist public support for the Hoover Commission's recommendations for organizational changes in the Federal Government. When that job was finished, Myrick longed for something else to do, decided to go back to his old sales agency as a consultant. "But," says Myrick, "nobody consults you about insurance. You have to go out and consult them...
Like Enemy, Tigers celebrates oddballs Author King has known. The title itself comes from a Zen Buddhist pal who always uttered "his senseless little orison" on leaving King's apartment. After three years, King exploded, "What is the meaning of this idiot prayer?" "Well," said the hurt friend, "have you been bothered by any tigers lately...