Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...America's vocabulary. The following are three areas of change and some samples: 1) new words: cybernetics, zap, finalize, multimedia; 2) old words rediscovered and popularized: ambience, relevant, charisma, geriatric, black, guru, spectrum, style of life (plus four-letter words formerly heard only in an Army barrack or pool hall); 3) common words with radically changed meanings: trip, pig, square, soul...
...kind of truth and absurd dignity. Samples: ∙BLIND LOVE. A short novel, really. Blind London banker has secretary-companion with birth mark that spreads a liver stain from below a high blouse-collar over one breast. Her husband left her after one night. Banker has house with swimming pool within easy Rolls Royce distance of London. He likes to swim, she cannot. Also on hand is a quack faith healer. These elements might have been mixed into some sort of vulgar melodrama; with Pritchett, the story becomes a parable of the things that divide and unite man and woman...
...this man? He visited the Union two years ago. His high run is 153 balls in straight pool and 11 racks of nine ball. Can you play nine ball? He lived in the Taft Hotel in New York for five years and he played across the street at Guys and Dolls. He lived a simple and happy life. Then six months ago he met a mysterious woman, and he borrowed $800 to keep her happy. Now the money and the woman are all gone, and bad men are looking for him. His name is Boston Joey. You can help. Send...
...down $20,000 if the scene seems wrong. When they went to California to make their second LP, they wanted things just like their informal sessions in Woodstock. After a struggle, they avoided a sound studio with wrangling engineers, on-again, off-again schedules. Instead, Capitol fitted up a pool house that used to belong to Sammy Davis Jr. The group tinkered with the knobs themselves and worked at do-it-yourself recording pretty much when and as they pleased. Recently, they walked out of a guest appearance with Glen Campbell because they could not do it live?Campbell wanted...
...John Munk set the other pool record of the evening in the butterfly with a time of 2:02.5. Gerhart swam fast enough (2:21.0) to get second place and increase Harvard's lead...