Word: priming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eventually, as it became clear that Namath was also the prime mover behind the Jets' increasing success, the scene was being prepared for his inevitable comedown-when his AFL champion team would be crunched by the NFL powerhouse Colts. The comedown, of course, never occurred. In the best Cassius Clay tradition, Namath brashly predicted a New York victory in the Super Bowl, then had the gall to actually bring it off. Schaap had his book...
...getting close to the blow-off, the big number. Masters begins working up to more spectacular stunts. He's found this one guy, Dan, who's a prime subject. Dan is getting right up there on the old hypnotic scale. Masters pats him on the back and says, "You're a beauty, Dan." in this voice that lets you know that he's seen a lot of them. More than eight million people, you realize, have been zapped by The World's Greatest in his twenty-year career in Show Biz-he's seen a lot and he knows...
...always takes the movies a little while to catch up. The so-called "black humorists" of the early 1960s-Joseph Heller, John Barth, Terry Southern among others-are only now beginning to have their books made into films. On the face of it, they make prime movie material. Crazy, anarchistic, sometimes scurrilous, they seem to offer endless visual possibilities for acerbic comedy. But the problems of adaptation are also uniquely difficult. Much of the wit of these books comes not from situation, but from tone and style, brittle qualities that tend to disintegrate before the camera's demanding...
...Prime Time, Kendrick
...Marriage: Marriage is a prime example of a straight institution fraught with role playing. Traditional marriage is a rotten, oppressive institution. Those of us who have been in heterosexual marriages too often have blamed our gayness on the breakup of the marriage. No. They broke up because marriage is a contract which smothers both people. And we had the strength, again, to refuse to capitulate to the roles which were demanded...