Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trick to reconcile opposites, a method of giving a long sentence a parole. It was not until 1922 and Ulysses that James Joyce made it a literature unto itself. In Finnegans Wake, words become quintuple exposures; the reader has to search for a glimpse of something recognizable. In A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson explicate a typical and relatively easy example: "Into boudoir Joyce inserts the letter I and converts the word to boudeloire, thus adding a river association, 'Loire.' Clinging to the word also are the French associations, bonder...
...farmer who has a monster living in the well beneath his house, and a novelist who offered a toast to the triumph of mankind, unaware that he was being observed by a bemused rat. He tells of an old rancher who shocked his family by keeping the skeleton of his sister, murdered by Apaches, in the china closet. And of the lonely bachelor who had found and fallen in love with what he believed to be a petrified woman...
Many economists and businessmen, however, were more inclined to stress the indefinite nature of much of the program. "Until I see the flesh on the skeleton, I can't tell whether the girl is beautiful or not," quipped Arthur Okun, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Joseph Pechman, director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution, complained that Nixon "is providing machinery, but not yet a policy for restraining wages and prices." In the judgment of George Sheinberg, treasurer of Bulova Watch Co., the impact of the program "is going to depend almost entirely on the people whom...
...tosses in nightmare; waves swill against his mattress, accusing figures and monsters jostle in the water, and a gigantic buttoned glove flops like a squid against the bedroom wall. A skeleton lies across a railroad track, two bony ringers stuck between fleshless lips to whistle an approaching train to its accident. Cliffs become gloomy torsos, a lobster floats in air. The images seem like snippets from a surrealist collage by Max Ernst. In fact, they filled the graphic work of a 19th century German academician named Max Klinger...
...course, all the money does not go in one direction. Most of the $100 million-a-year diamond crop from the Skeleton Coast and offshore sea beds is harvested by South Africa's De Beers. The Pretoria government reaps roughly $50 million in taxes from diamond and other mining, including U.S. copper and zinc interests. An ambitious British-backed development in uranium mining is one of several new ventures in the region...