Word: ax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...light the fire, Jimi didn't even have to pull his stunt of burning his guitar-though a fireman was poised in the wings, ax at the ready, in case he did. Instead, he hopped, twisted and rolled over sideways without missing a twang or a moan. He slung the guitar low over swiveling hips, or raised it to pick the strings with his teeth; he thrust it between his legs and did a bump and grind, crooning: "Oh, baby, come on now, sock it to me!" Lest anybody miss his message, he looked at a girl...
...openings go, it was a far cry from 1938's International Exhibition of Surrealism, when 2,000 outraged Parisians staged a near riot. Or from Cologne's Dada exposition of 1920, when the entrance hall was a public lavatory, the visitors were supplied with an ax to chop up the art, and a young girl in a white Communion dress stood on a platform reciting obscene verse...
...present, there is little doubt that defoliation operations will continue. Says the MRI report: "The ecological changes caused by herbicides at the current rate of use have in no measure reached the proportion of ecological disturbance caused by the plow, ax and uncontrolled burning...
...will have a loss in 1967, due partly to the paring of budgets by some of the company's 1,600-odd clients around the world. As the head of a new five-man executive committee closeted daily at the company's Manhattan headquarters, Healy has an ax-wielding mandate. "We are trimming companies fundamentally not related to client service," he says. "Eventually we will change the corporate structure, but just how we can't tell...
...businessmen-consider the tax increase essential in order to avoid an inflationary burst that could destroy the dollar's viability in world trade and its purchasing power at home. Judging from the mood of Congress, he is not likely to get the increase without taking a fiscally responsible ax to some current federal spending...