Word: bashfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nobody in Sweden calls me princess any more," said Sweden's Princess Christina, 29, thus enabling a roomful of Manhattan connoisseurs to admire the royal décolletage, which ended at about the navel, without committing lèse-majesté. The occasion: a money-raising bash to buy paintings from various worthy artists. After panting up the 80 Steps to Host Robert Rauschenberg's panoramic pad, the 300 guests nibbled at salmon and sipped Muscadet (from artistic plastic cups) while ogling a Who's Who of the beaux-arts, notably Roy Lichtenstein, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist...
...first contact with the big name professors came at a Currier House Ice Cream Bash given by co-Masters Paul Levine and Ursula Goodenough. We were amazed to eat ice cream with a Nobel Laureate while chocolate syrup dripped down his chin. But although we were nervous, things went well, and our experience at the Bash made us relatively certain that professors would be willing to talk to fledgling freshmen...
...hardest of all belongs to a luxuriantly mustachioed suburban dealer of Chevrolets and Fiats named Dick Balch. He moves his wares with the help of a 12-lb. sledgehammer. In ten-second TV spots, Balch has used the hammer to bash in the windshields, headlights and fenders of some 200 of his shiny new cars. His cockeyed routine often includes a devil's costume, a maniacal post-impact laugh and the question, "If you can't trust your car dealer, who can you trust?" This bang-up if nonsensical commercial has drawn attention as well as plenty...
Woodstock created the cosmic-scale rock festival; Altamont butchered it and Mary Sol may have killed it. Some 30,000 youths in regimental beads and headbands set out for Puerto Rico during Easter Holy Week for a bash thrown by the tireless festival promoter, Atlanta's Alex Cooley. For their $149 they got hopelessly inadequate transportation, a generally tepid show, exorbitant concession prices, scant drinking water, little emergency medical care, poor sanitary conditions and the tragedy of four deaths, one of them violent...
...campaign: "Would you want your law enforcement carried out by me or by a nice fellow?" A volatile man, he buttonholed precinct captains to remind them who he was and what they owed him. When he found that doors were locked at ward meetings, he sometimes tried to bash them down. He claimed that he had done more than anyone else to protect blacks from street crime, but he also played to the gut fears of whites. His appeal was likened to that of George Wallace...