Word: festooned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...music become part of some whites' lifestyles. This is osmotic rather than overt, something in the mood and tempo of his work, and not in the presence of any black characters in his plays. Nor is it his only concern. Fast cars, mechanical gadgetry, chrome and plastic values festoon his works and form a symbolic veneer under which, he seems to be saying, older American ideals are shriveling...
...essay this week deals with imaginary numbers, those intriguing but often inadequately supported figures that festoon our data-happy society. Like other publications, TIME sometimes finds it impossible to avoid using such numbers. They are accurate as far as anyone knows, but inevitably they represent estimates rather than precise measurements. In the current issue, the cover story quantifies East Pakistan's essentially unmeasurable agony in several ways (more than 7,000,000 refugees fled to India, for example). Elsewhere we note that U.S. crops are annually dusted with "about 1 billion pounds of pesticide" (ENVIRONMENT), and that microorganisms once...
...book is one of those narrative toothpick trees that the '20s musicals utilized only to festoon with girls and dances. The central figure is a near-millionaire Bible publisher, whom Jack Gilford plays with gullible charm. Gilford is a kind of platonic sucker who has been gilding the palms of three avaricious flappers without any amorous return on his investment. He doesn't want his wife (Keeler) to find out about it, and he orders his lawyer (Bobby Van) to buy and bargain his way out of the mess. It all adds up to a kind of microminiature...
Hard-Sell. In the Delta, proud papa-sans festoon their hootches with TV antennas-the latest status symbol-even if they cannot get up the $175 price of the sets that go with them. In the power-short cities, the tube is almost too successful. In Saigon last month, THVN had to switch its madly popular Friday evening show, Cai Luong, a modern-dress Chinese opera, to a Sunday slot. With all of Saigon's factories and all of its TV sets going at the same hour on Friday, power sources were being dangerously overtaxed. "You could smell...