Word: hanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jolted by the National Safety Council ad showing a couple tooling down a highway. An announcer's voice says "Guess who Sid and Gladys ran into day before yesterday?" There is silence, then the sickening sound of a collision followed by the return of the voice with the answer: "Hank and Marilyn." Even Smokey the Bear is growling nowadays: his fire-prevention spots feature footage of charred woodlands...
Downward Mobility. Literary historians will no doubt observe that in Hank Tattersall, the anti-hero of Pajamas, the author has summoned up a kind of upside-down Faust, an itchy, gifted, compulsively discontented man who can do anything, but is damned if he does or he doesn't. Simpler souls may be content with noting that Tattersall has a vested interest in failure. And so does De Vries, for Hank's hegira through a series of professions allows the author to lampoon various American scenes and sideshows, sometimes with Swiftian savagery...
According to taste, Tillie's matrimonial ordeal in Witch's Milk will seem touching, crazily unconvincing, or hopelessly sentimental. But read back to back with The Cat's Pajamas, it removes all doubt about De Vries' allegiance to domestic commitment, however grotesque. In Hank Tattersall's swinging world, everything is possible, therefore nothing is binding. Like Pete Seltzer, Hank, too, talks about outrageous products. But he does so only in ironic mockery of himself and the commercial world. By contrast, Seltzer's crazy products are mainly dreamed up as a kind of cheerful game...
...turned out, it was the experts who were embarrassed. The man responsible for the red faces was U.S. Coach Hank Iba, 64, the grand old man of U.S. college basketball from Oklahoma State University. Iba worked so hard at molding his players into a cohesive unit that he lost his voice. They responded by rattling off eight straight victories, including a surprisingly easy 73-58 triumph over Yugoslavia. They also got a big break when the Yugoslavs beat Russia 63-62 in the semifinals-thereby ruling out any confrontation between the U.S. and the favored Russians...
...company which flies food into Biafra under contract to the Red Cross, and guns in under contract to the Biafran government (cash in advance), is called North American airlines, and is run by an American named Hank Wharton: nicknamed "Hanky-Panky, cause that's the only kind of business he'd want," McGuire says. Unofficial headquarters of the outfit is the Hotel Tivoli in Lisbon, where "Hanky-Panky" lives in Room 228--a room registered in the name of "a little mini-skirt with red hair"--and his chief assistant resides...