Word: padding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lyceum Theater and walked two blocks back to his paper. He settled into his chair on the third floor of the Times building on 43rd Street, and following the practice of years, spread out the theater program, a dozen freshly pointed pencils and a legal-size pad of lined paper. Then, writing by hand, one paragraph at a time-each snatched immediately by the impatient copy desk-he delivered his judgment ("inherently hopeless'') on Goodbye Charlie, the comedy he had just seen. Within an hour, the Times's presses were reproducing an appraisal that would be read...
...Early morning in the universe," says Narrator Kerouac at the outset, by way of scene setting. On the screen, a beautiful but weary woman opens the shutters of her pad. (She is played by Delphine Youngerman, who calls herself Beltiane.) Outside is Manhattan's Bowery; inside are her little boy and, hung on a chair, her absent husband's "tortured socks...
Glaring in the darkness like some colossal firework, a 98-ft. rocket blasted off a launching pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla. one night last week. As it zoomed skyward, trailing a gaudy glow of reds and greens, a watcher in the Canaveral blockhouse gasped out an awed, unscientific tribute: "Isn't she beautiful...
...into the vicinity of the moon-and if all went well, into orbit around the moon. The rocket also carried a weighty cargo of hope and national pride: Nikita Khrushchev had kicked off his trip to the U.S. with the Russian moon shot; a U.S. answer exploded on the pad while he was in the U.S. Here, on the eve of the President's grand tour, was the U.S.'s chance to catch...
...Sunset Strip) Zimbalist Jr. (Adeste Fideles), and cowpokes. notably Clint (Cheyenne) Walker (Silver Bells) and Ty (Bronco) Hardin ("It came upon ah mid-naht cleah"). Edd ("Kookie") Byrnes recites, to a cool jazz beat, a ditty called Yulesville: "'Twas the night before Christmas/ And all through the pad/ Not a hipcat was swingin'/ And that's nowhere...