Word: badgers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keeps right on its tail. One fine morning, "without having done anything wrong," a bank clerk named Joseph K. (Tony Perkins) is arrested-or is it all just a bad dream? Two plainclothesmen burst into his bedroom, order him to dress, refuse to say what law he has broken, badger him for bribes, steal his best shirts, subject him to an apparently pointless "interrogation." And then breeze off, leaving K. in a sweat. Were they really plainclothesmen-or were they crooks? Is he really arrested-or is the whole affair a practical joke? "I've done nothing wrong...
...nearly 70 now-a dark, brooding, badger-faced man living in near-total oblivion in the enormous stone pile that is Spandau prison. But in May 1941, when Rudolf Hess suddenly landed in a cow pasture in Scotland and asked to see the Duke of Hamilton, the Deputy Führer of the Third Reich was full of high hope...
...West Germany's richest postwar wonder boys has come tumbling down. A big plunger in coal and steel stocks, Hermann Krages, 53, has seen his investments multiply 25 times since 1948. But though he got rich, he made few friends: Krages often used his minority holdings to badger managements until they bought him out at prices above the market just to be rid of him. The manner of Krages' fall last week told much about the immense power of banks in today's West Germany...
Some of the chic clique are turning to other furs, running the range from badger to beaver, squirrel to seal, and including such far-out furs as pony, jaguar and zebra; best-dressed Mrs. William Paley passed up racks of floor-length mink coats last week to buy a simple little number in grey squirrel. Currently, the move is to sable. But if it is to be mink, then it must be cut rakishly enough or designed with sufficient casualness to insure its owner protection against being lumped with the common crowd at her heels. Get the "understated mink." cries...
...paint, Katayama kneels in Japanese style, with his feet tucked under, uses an ink of rock pigment, and brushes of wool or badger hair. It was the eyes of Industrialist Matsushita that most fascinated the artist, who found them at once serene and alert. "Eyes are the mirror of every human." says Katayama...