Word: streamers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These malfunctions are possible: Your parachute might never have left its pack. It might be a "streamer," which means it's out there, but just not filling with air. It might have holes in it. It might have one of its lines looped over the top, cutting the bowl in half, creating two much-less-effective bowls...
...whole country by means of a magical mystery tour, a cross-country trip in a pyschedelic magic bus with loudspeakers on top, a sleeping bag for screwing, acid in the portable fridge, and lots of merry pranks along the way: "... in Barry Goldwater's home town ... they put a streamer on the bus reading 'A VOTE FOR BARRY IS A VOTE FOR FUN.' And they put American flags up on the bus and Casady drove the bus backwards down the main drag of Phoenix ... The citizens were suitably startled, outraged, delighted, non-plussed." Of course the bus looked like...
...Third Streamer. Composer Schuller, 42, is emerging as one of the most vital figures in American music. No sooner had he finished conducting the San Francisco performance than he hopped a jet back to Boston, where he is in his first year as president of the New England Conservatory of Music. In two months he has revamped the conservatory's somewhat musty operation to put more stress on practical training, brought in 17 new faculty members, expanded the curriculum and stepped up fund raising. "Why not think big?" he asks. "This conservatory could affect the musical education...
...eroticism." But the biggest gasps in town greeted a Heim stretch suit patterned like a cobra skin and protected (he says) from charges of indecent exposure by a U.S.-made body stocking underneath. Lanvin stuck to skirts, most of which, in turn, were stuck to panels (of the skinny, streamer variety), while Griffe played the game from both sides of the net, turned some skirts into pants, left others the way they started...
...reached the U.S. staging base at Christchurch, New Zealand, the following day. Flights from Christchurch to McMurdo have been made with almost monoto nous regularity for the past eight years -but only in the sunlit months from December to March. During April the light shrinks to a thin orange streamer and then flickers out, to be succeeded by continuous night and a winter season of swift blizzards and howling gales with temperatures as low as -127° F. Not until August does the sun return...