Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fries and ice cream. Customers gauche enough to request either were caustically advised to try Schrafft's down the street. Furnished in what historians of the day termed "early Butte, Montana" style, Bleeck's boasted mahogany-paneled walls and clustered electric globes, a suit of concrete-filled armor on which many a combative drunk broke his knuckles, a stuffed sailfish that had been caught by J. P. Morgan, and some of the best broiled chicken in town. For years no female was admitted except Minnie the cat, and Bleeck offered his hungry male customers hearty German fare served...
...complete is IBM's line of 14 computers, ranging from the compact 1440 (average monthly rent: $2,600) to the huge 7090 ($63,000 monthly), that competitors can find no chinks in its armor. IBM's army of salesmen is the industry's best paid-incomes average $16,000 to $20.000 a year-and most numerous. Complains Dr. Louis T. Rader, president of Sperry-Rand's Univac division: "It doesn't do much good to build a better mousetrap if the other guy selling mousetraps has five times as many salesmen...
...family is an ancient and illustrious one: Lautrec's armor-clad ancestors went on the Crusades, his rich grandfather, father and uncles, all did their bit toward the greater grandeur of France. They were artists, too, as proved by their sketches of hunting scenes and country life, which are included in the exhibition. Says Count Robert de Toulouse-Lautrec, the painter's cousin and closest survivor: "Perhaps if Henri had not been deformed, he would have become a diplomat or an officer. But he certainly would have painted...
Victorian gentlemen, rustled and bustled at by ladies in swathes of outer material and nether armor, paid handsome prices for paintings of unclad women in voluptuous tangles, with titles like A Nude Woman or Youth on the Prow and Pleasure at the Helm, and a barroom without a nude was naked indeed. But today the naked lady-or bits and pieces of her-is filling the advertising columns and editorial pages of the fashion magazines, general magazines and even family newspapers...
Then, suddenly realizing that Billy has almost succeeded in piercing his only armor, he cries: "Oh, no! You would charm me, too. Get away! Get away!" For Claggart sees Billy's goodness as a threat to the evil equilibrium of his very existence...