Word: sombrero
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blue and yellow. He's standing on the ground floor of the Footlight Club and there are "Timilty for Mayor" signs in front of the discolights. The music is very loud--as are the costumes. And as he stands next to some huge guy in a massive sombrero. Timilty looks decidedly uncomfortable. A young woman dressed up as Mr. Bill from Saturday Night Live screeches up to the candidate and asks to take his picture. Her friend, in a President Carter costume, stands next to Timilty and the mask grins like an idiot. Timilty grins, too--but he just doesn...
...Stop at the Lakewood, Me., summer theater consisted mostly of thick-thighed teenagers with braces on their teeth. For the first 20 minutes of the play they sat clutching each other, ecstatic with anticipation. Then the star of the show loped onstage, wearing skintight jeans and a white sombrero. "My name is Bo Decker and I'm 21 years old," he cried. "Everywhere I go I got all the women." The audience squealed...
...discovered that whisky could be downed with impunity in public places if it were concealed in a glass of milk. A few learned to like it that way and kept the habit after repeal, continuing to order an occasional brandy alexander (cream, brandy and creme de cacao) or a sombrero (milk and Kahlua). But now drinkers are turning in larger numbers to the milky way. Liquor-store shelves are displaying a growing variety of dairy-based, premixed cocktails combining booze and moos...
...about poetry than any man living." After he was fired from an instructor's job at Wabash College when a prostitute was found in his rooms, Pound showed up in London at 23 wearing a piratical red beard, green felt trousers, pink jacket, hand-painted Japanese tie, huge sombrero, one turquoise earring, and pince...
...hate the Russians/ all through my whole life," Dylan sang, "I learned to hate Russia/ and China/ and Korea/ and Vietnam/ and South America/ and Bulgaria." Onstage, he's exactly the opposite of a Liza Minelli offering her heart up to the audience. Dylan is coy, buried under the sombrero, the guitar and the harmonica holder; he demands complete fascination from the crowd and he gets...