Word: baron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven-year drought of the '50s. But for all the usual Texas exuberance, one hears sometimes an elegiac note. Ranches are being broken up into "ranchettes," absurd little parcels of land in the middle of nowhere. The owner thereby becomes a small parody of the land-holder, the cattle baron. Some ranchers are turning their land over to "exotic game safaris," importing African animals (gazelles or eland or Cape buffalo) and parading them over the range to be shot, for a handsome price, by city boys dressed up like Jeremiah Johnson...
...photo caption in Wednesday's Crimson misidentified a member of the Democratic Club as Jeffrey S. Baron '86. He is club President Jeffrey S. Behrens...
...nameplate directory at the base of the building recently had the label for apartment 209 changed from "Ferranti-Dege" to "A. C. Ferranti," the name of the store's owner. Also, "J. August" was changed to "D. Baron," according to residents...
...addition, the listing for apartment 309 was changed from "J. August" to "D. Baron." There appeared to be no other alterations...
...unlikely bunch consists of the Countess and her husband, Count Yerblessings (Ron Duvernay) and their liege Sir Vance Entrance (David Chase, who also wrote the rollicking score) and his wife Rhea Entrance (Adrian Blake). Plus their two ill-matched offspring, engaged to be married: Chrysler le Baron (Erick Neher) and Ethel Alcohol (George Zlupko). Chrysler, to put it mildly, is a disappointment to his amazon mother. And even his father gets exasperated with his poetry spouting and inability to dig warfare: "Chrysler, why can't you be more like Rambo?" Ethel's not much help. She's busy with...