Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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High Living. In Kalamazoo, Mich., when Richard M. Horn was fined $10 plus $4.30 in court costs for filching a 75? item from a grocery, he pulled out four $100 bills, demanded that one of them be changed, explained that he never carried small stuff around with...
...Item: a large, flaking Jackson Pollock abstraction, for which Hale paid a reputed $32,000 in 1957, recently brought a $75,000 offer from the dealer who sold it, might bring $100,000 in the open market...
Obviously affected by Miller's "Tropics," Durrell erupted with a steamy item called The Black Book, still regarded as too obscene" to be published in Britain jr America. When his disciple's novel cached Miller, that dithyrambic daddy f all unshy pornographers effused: 'Down with Shakespeare! Down with Jhaucer! I greet Lawrence Durrell as the first Englishman." Even that cool sage, T. S. Eliot, bobbed approval. For Durrell he effect was tonic, "like suddenly hear-ng your own tone of voice...
...from Old Vienna, Alex King is too savvy not to know that his brand of nonconformity is a hotter commercial item right now than togetherness. Before Mine Enemy grows weeks older (it just appeared in a paperback edition), the royalties from that book alone will cross the $100,000 mark. The third volume of King's memoirs is under way, and will contain no anecdotes ("It is about me"). Perhaps he has been wounded by a recent sally. "I notice," said a fellow wit, "that you are not going to ruin your autobiography by putting your life into...
...Dandy Little Giant Nervous Breakdown Avoider," a mail-answering form full of prefab messages such as "Congratulations," "Get well soon," "Let's both forget it," and "You paid me the highest compliment a woman ever paid a man, but I am not worthy of your love." That last item is frequently checked, for Hoffman is fond of women, including girls of all wages. His vision being what it is, he is not choosy. A Hollywood friend says: "If Irving ever regained his eyesight and saw some of those girls, he'd commit suicide...