Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dead. In a dimly lit Salle Royale hung with blue velvet, glows the gold funeral chair, with its big-horned sacred cows for armrests, that was made to carry Tut on his postmortal trip. The room also glows with gold objects that surrounded him in life: his gold armchair trimmed with ebony and ivory, his royal scepters, glittering earrings and necklaces...
When the Joint Center for Urban Studies was established in 1959, Harvard and M.I.T. expected it to concentrate on "armchair observation" of urban policy and problems. In recent years, however, there has been a growing recognition of the need to take a more active role in the city...
...little as ten feet in width and five miles in length. Paraguay, a landlocked dictatorship the size of California, has only 450 miles of paved roads, and in Venezuela, which is three times larger than Italy, the state railroad moves on a total of 220 miles of track. The armchair traveler learns that dueling is still legal in Uruguay, that Bolivian jails do not feed the prisoners (who must depend on handouts from friends or relatives), and that Recife, a Brazilian coast city of 1,000,000 population, has 40,000 registered prostitutes. Colombia boasts more than 700 varieties...
...armchair's sticky plastic; places...
...huddle and finally said, 'Christ, I don't . . , I can't think of any plays.' " Or the reticent Milt Plum, savoring a game-winning touchdown pass: "You pull off something like that, and there doesn't need to be anything else, ever." The armchair quarterback will readily agree -and be intensely jealous of Plimpton every page...