Word: bags
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were the enemy? The report finds that they were a very mixed bag, running the gamut from pacifists, assorted peace groups, Communists, socialists, anarchists and New Left students, all the way to the yippies, who seem to have been the most baffling to Chicago authorities. The yippies appeared to be, in Norman Mailer's approving term, largely "existential," meaning that they lacked any clear-cut ideology or program. Yippies accept no leaders, not even their own, and Daley and his men could scarcely make much sense of yippie manifestos like that of Abbie Hoffman, who saw the movement...
...favorite forms of relaxation is taking to the fields for a brisk go at game-bird hunting. Last week, for a day, he was able to indulge in his hunting hobby on a private preserve, and by noon he and his party had knocked down 75 birds for the bag. When asked by a reporter about his future plans, Humphrey smiled cryptically and said he expected to have "something to announce by Christmas. A semipublic position." That mystery introduced, the Veep potted a few more pheasant, then winged off to his Minnesota home for the holiday...
...contrary, Johnson had certainly been briefed at least twice on the use of the nuclear emergency system. Clifton, who established communication with the White House, was also in continuous touch with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara; any military responses could have been ordered in seconds. Beyond that, the "bag," or the "football," as the suitcase with the codes is better known, was even then becoming obsolete. Had it been necessary...
...triptych centers on what can only be a dismembered corpse, with blood spattered on the castoff clothing and zippered travel bag. On either side are matching panels, which may - or may not - be the orgiastic prelude to butchery. On the left, two plump nude figures lie exhausted on a curious coffee table covered with mattresses and fitted with a mirror for self-viewing. On the right, two figures are ravenously devouring each other, while the mirror this time picks up the image of an attendant voyeur calmly chatting on the telephone. The work is by Britain's Francis Bacon...
...Sassoon-style adolescent come down to London to study art. Soon artists start studying Joanna. She plays musical beds with every boy who rubs against her, makes friends with the world, and generally lives without any of the conventional moral hang-ups. The trouble is that the freedom bag turns out to be a prison without walls. Pleasure is everywhere, but Joanna is nowhere, until she makes a commitment by falling in love with a brooding black man (Calvin Lockhart). The affair winds down to tragedy; mixed up with the Mob, he gets a long stretch in quod. Joanna, three...