Word: handly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life without a snake." Fortunately for Fleming Joffe Ltd., biggest U.S. supplier of snakeskins, many women cannot. The company did a $1 million-plus trade in skins last year, with python the biggest seller (naturally black and white, the skins are often bleached out and dyed other shades or hand painted) and boa and cobra close behind. "In fact," says Snakeskin Salesman Rocco Selvaggi, "where the boas are concerned, we're selling whatever we can get our hands on." Business is expected to double by the end of this season...
Most of the nation's leading public figures have been on hand at least once. Among them: Hubert Humphrey, George Wallace, George McGovern, Henry Kissinger, Daniel Moynihan, Walter Reuther, Sam Yorty and John Lindsay. John Ehrlichman, paying his third visit last week, generated plenty of copy, including a Page One lead in the Washington Evening Star: "President Nixon's chief adviser on domestic affairs hinted today that the White House is considering seeking a ban on handguns in the District of Columbia." Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News noted in his story that "Ehrlichman provided a rare...
...shivers from the thrust. In a masque, a musically flatulent clown capers on a stage, mocking the audience with scatological jokes and gestures. A grinning idiot is carried onstage and led to a chopping block. A headsman mimes a blow with his weapon -then chops the victim's hand off to a chorus of cackles, while freshets of blood stain the scene. It is a savage fragment of the cinema of cruelty, a death-in-life image, like T.S. Eliot's perception of "the skull beneath the skin...
...grizzled old Westerner stares longingly at the Gila monster. Reaching slowly and cautiously down, the prospector has the lizard shot right out of his hand. "You peckerwoods just raised hell with our supper," he complains as two grungy rounders advance on him. "It's just like you said, Hogue," says one, "there's enough water for two but not for three." They rob him of his canteen and leave...
...pursuit of El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth, is encapsulated in Macondo. The only trace of the Protestant ethic in the town is the operation of the U.S banana company-and the "gringos" are plainly mean, greedy, and probably crazy too. The Buendias, on the other hand, are inspired mainly by the magic in life. They see no limit of human potential, mostly because natural miracles abound-a plague of insomnia, showers of dead birds or yellow flowers, the arrival of death as a lady in blue. When Remedies Buendia (whose beauty and musky odor drive men mad) suddenly...