Word: holliday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose 2-ft. -thick brick walls live such celebrities as Lauren Bacall, Roberta Flack, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who own some 28 rooms throughout the Dakota and who once held a séance to commune with departed tenants. Other famous occupants have included Leonard Bernstein, Judy Holliday and Boris Karloff, plus several purported house ghosts. The Dakota is just the haunt, then, for Stephen Birmingham, who has made a living off the rich ("Our Crowd," The Right People. The Grandees) and famous (Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis...
...Then you've got to become selective," he said. "You have to learn to 'feel' particularly good sounds, such as the jazz sound of Billie Holliday, or the Pentacostal sounds from the line of Aretha Franklin... or the Blues of John Lee Hooker," he added...
...sensuality and wacky spontaneity. Says Paul Mazursky, who directed her in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice: "She has this strange sexuality, which has the slightest edge of being funky, and this humor." She is the exact opposite of a gently provocative Diane Keaton, much more like a latter-day Judy Holliday (but brassier). Cannon downright dares to be vulgar. Says Buck Henry, co-director (with Beatty) of Heaven Can Wait: "She's successful because she's not afraid to make a fool of herself...
Though Actress Judy Holliday specialized in playing dumb blondes, legend has it that she possessed a towering 172 IQ. Spiro Agnew says his is 135, which puts him well into the ranks of the intellectually superior. South Korea's Kim Ung-Yong, a 14-year-old prodigy who was speaking four languages and solving integral calculus problems at age four, is said to tip the mental scales at 210, worth a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records. Even Yankee Slugger Reggie Jackson brags as much about his IQ (he claims...
...Raymond Holliday, chairman of Hughes Tool Co., says Carter "seems never to be willing to compromise or accept advice. He is reluctant to admit that it is possible for him to make a mistake." Gene Woodfin, chairman of Marathon Manufacturing Co., a Houston-based maker of drilling rigs, caustically characterizes Carter's attitude: "He's 100% right and everyone else is 100% wrong, and he's the President and we have...