Word: festooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never compiled until now, such fascinating statistics festoon The American Jury (Little, Brown; $15), a monumental new study by University of Chicago Law Professors Harry Kalven Jr. and Hans Zeisel. Far from content with statistics, the authors have also tackled a crucial question: how well or badly does the jury perform...
...almost two miles on both sides of Avenida Revolución, Tijuana's main drag, bright yellow, white, red, blue and green neon signs festoon the dirty façades of grubby joints. In front of each stands a swarthy doorman, generally wearing baggy dark pants and a soiled red coat with heavily padded shoulders. To passing wolf packs of mufti-clad U.S. marines and sailors, he calls in an inviting voice: "Hey, Meester! Want to see nice French movies? Nice exhibition? You want nice girls?" "Take It off" The "good time" joints feature underlighted interiors, watered rum, tequila...
...they cut early in 1958-the Kingston Trio have added to the burgeoning U.S. folk music boom (see Music) a slick combination of near-perfect close harmony and light blue humor. To help their predominantly collegiate and post-collegiate audiences identify with them, the three do their best to festoon themselves in Ivy, wear button-down shirts, even chose the name Kingston because it had a ring of Princeton about it as well as a suggestion of calypso. Sporting close-cropped hair and a deceptive Social Studies i-A loo, they strum guitars and banjos, foam like dentifrice, tumble onto...