Word: lusterless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Merv seemed lusterless after dark; his whoopee all seemed to come from an aerosol can that went poof. In the latest ratings, Carson was more securely than ever the nation's midnight idol, commanding a healthy 37% of the audience, compared with a measly 15% for Griffin. ABC's Joey Bishop is third, with 12%. The remaining 36% of the viewers are watching old movies and other shows scheduled by independent channels and network-affiliated holdouts...
...vogue. The same could not be said of This Is Tom Jones (ABC), a variety bill headlined by a Welsh baritone in the soul bag. Jones version of soul is three parts sweat and a half-part swivet. On the premiere, he was finished off by his continuity writers, lusterless Songstress Joey Heatherton, and Comic Richard Pryor, whose contribution was a tasteless impression of a Negro preacher. Even more painful is The Queen and I (CBS), a situation comedy whose plot is Bilko at sea. Very much at sea- the Queen being an ocean liner headed for mothballs. Keeping...
...summed up the prevailing bitter mood of those Czechoslovaks who remain: "We will work even less than before; we will be the greatest country of nonworkers." All too evidently, the country was slipping back from its luminous "spring" (as the Czechoslovaks call their brief period of reform) toward the lusterless mediocrity of a Soviet satellite...
...child comes to have significance beyond his own life. Prisoners submit to torture and death rather than reveal his constantly changing refuge. As Allied planes drone overhead, the great war outside Buchenwald is echoed by the small one inside. Men whose lusterless eyes have long since accepted defeat and early death begin again to act like people with a future. The precious burden of the boy becomes synonymous with the tomorrow none of them had ever hoped to see. Rumors run through the camp that the war is almost over. And when the Germans continue their pathological extermination of prisoners...
...reprinting editorials from other papers, was jolted by a wry campaign observation in the Buffalo Evening News. "A good turnout can be expected at the polls in November," predicted the News. "Most voters used up their apathy watching the conventions." Could it be, Marsh wondered, that the lusterless campaign had provided a setting for editorial whimsy? By last week, with publication of the second of two editorial samplers, the Trib's Marsh had made his point: ∙The Louisville Courier-Journal noted that a local Republican office-seeker was blaming Lyndon Johnson for everything- from the mess...