Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...junior-executive type; "swish" bars for the effeminates and "hair fairies" with their careful coiffures; "TV" bars, which cater not to television fans but to transvestites; "leather" bars for the tough-guy types with their fondness for chains and belts; San Francisco's new "Topless Boys" discotheques, featuring bare-chested entertainers. San Francisco and Los Angeles are rivals for the distinction of being the capital of the gay world; the nod probably goes to San Francisco...
Tobin said yesterday that there is a large bare hill without any trees in the arboretum which would be ideal for a simple ski tow or T-bar. Such a facility, he declared, would improve the area, add to its value and "would not be abhorrent to the purposes of the arboretum nor mar its beauty...
...vacation after one year on the job (present vacation: five weeks after 25 years). The Transit Authority figured that the package would cost $680 million, or one-fifth of the entire New York City budget. It did not make its first counteroffer to Quill's demand until a bare seven hours before the strike. It then offered a $25 million package, a 3.2% increase that hit exactly the wage-hike guidelines laid down by President Johnson. As a result, Johnson, who had criticized a steel-price increase early last week, was criticized for refusing to step into...
...weeks underscored the fact that political independence has not turned out to be the panacea many Africans had dreamed it would be. Dahomey, the C.A.R. and Upper Volta are all pitifully poor, lack the mineral deposits and rich soil necessary to lift the standard of living much above the bare minimums their populations had endured for years. Unable to do much for the people, the politicians unwisely did what they could for themselves. Dahomey's first President built a $3,000,000 palace; the Upper Volta's Yaméogo built himself a sumtuous country retreat with...
...Capote had only presented a bare history, colored with reportorial irony, In Cold Blood would be merely suspenseful and provoking non-fiction. But it is a novel, for Capote, with singular grace, hovers between profound irony and melodrama--the irony of collision and the drama of a not inconsiderable sense of fate. The central impact of the amassed documentation derives from the compelling personality of the central figure, Perry Smith, and his belief in fate. By the time we have come to know Perry and his fated family, for whom the "solution" to life has frequently been violent suicide...