Word: bearskin
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...spotlights may stay on forever. Last week under a galaxy of glare in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, there was a fanfare of trumpets, a thunder of drums, a skirl of bagpipes. And out trooped two bands of white-helmeted Royal Marines followed by the kilted pipers and bearskin-topped drummers of the Scots Guards and the Royal Scots Greys. Later in the evening, in sandals, scarlet tunics and saw-toothed white skirts (called sulus) came the 57-man band of Her Majesty's Fiji Military Forces. The occasion, and a glittering one indeed, was the Royal Marines...
...intervals, presumably to suggest that a red-eyed Minerva gazes upon the 20th century with something less than Homeric tranquillity. The film's pretensions often make way for the most extravagant display of Bardot nudity yet seen. She appears nude in red light, blue light, and on a bearskin rug. "Do you like my ankles?" she purrs. "My knees? Thighs?" The question seems oddly beside the point for a director ostensibly contemplating the bust of Homer...
...Legend has it that Wall Street's use of the word "bull" comes from the upward toss that a bull gives his horns before charging ahead, while the use of "bear" to describe a short seller comes from the old saying about "selling a bearskin before the bear is caught...
...through the canebrakes along the Mississippi-big hounds that run the bear into exhaustion, and darting terriers that hold him at bay while the huntsmen come crashing up. Says Morton: "Once, after we shot a bear we found a terrier named Frisco lying under him with a mouthful of bearskin and a look on his face as if to say 'Well, it's about time you got here...
...barbarian is not necessarily known by his bearskin, his ax or his H-bomb nor does he always pound on his desk in a parliament of nations. He may be as urbane as the 18th century philosophers who prepared the way for the guillotine and the tumbrels. Or, in one man's words: He may wear a Brooks Brothers suit and carry a ballpoint pen ... In fact, even beneath the academic gown there may lurk a child of the wilderness, untutored in the high tradition of civility, who goes busily and happily about his work a domesticated...