Word: jacketful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lieut. Stanley Poole (Darren McGavin), a hard-bitten campaigner, has been frightened out of his dimmish wits by a directive. To hold his rank, he must pass a college test; to pass the test, he is bribing the post education officer with every last field jacket and wall locker in his supply room. Peter Fonda, an egghead private who goes psycho at the sight of an unsheathed bayonet, offers to tutor McGavin, and soon he is running a class for every Neanderthal man on the post...
...glitter, it was a subdued affair as opera openings go. There were black ties and evening gowns aplenty, but Lübke and Brandt, mindful of the divided city's precarious situation, shunned the traditional white tie and tails for business suits. One woman sported a pink mink jacket, but not a single diamond tiara could be seen in the house...
...self-conscious note on the dust jacket informs that Author Goodman saw Army service during the war "but all of it in the U.S.," suggesting that The End of It might be just another attempt to ring the bell of Adano with a ballpoint pen. But he has collected his material with all the thorough absorption of a Walter Lord assembling data on the voyage of the Titanic, and after a turgid beginning in which the book nearly founders in the rhetoric of Why and Wherefore, he writes closely and often superbly, offering on the side a fascinating lesson...
...once answered a reporter's questions (she was a 16-year-old Windsor, Vt., high school girl who wrote an article for her school paper in 1953). He will turn and run if addressed on the street by a stranger, and his picture has not appeared on a dust jacket since the first two printings of Catcher (it was yanked off the third edition at his request). He has refused offers from at least three book clubs for Franny and Zooey, and has not sold anything to the movies since Hollywood made a Susan Hayward Kleenex dampener of his Uncle...
...poignant get-well-soon notes from old readers of mine who have somewhere picked up the bogus information that I spend six months of the year in a Buddhist monastery and the other six in a mental institution." One source of bogus information is the author himself; in the jacket blurb for Franny and Zooey, which he wrote himself, he says with coy fraudulence that "I live in Westport with my dog." The dark facts are that he has not lived in Westport or had a dog for years. But to disprove such rumors and humors involves infiltrating a distant...