Word: borrower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...side decides to put on a show itself? What happens when they countersubversively decide to use the Rascals' best weapon--amateur audacity and charm--to win mass approval for themselves? Crafty kids. They ask dad the best way to raise the money, and they ask mum if they can borrow the interior decorator to do the sets and they hire a Professional Director to choreograph the kick line. But No Girls Allowed, so some of the kids stuff their skirts with petticoats and put on phony busts. Step kick kick, step kick kick, and pretty soon it's opening night...
Sudden Impulse. At the other end of the scale, some card companies are establishing a hierarchy among their holders. American Express, besides its familiar green card, issued a gold card to clients who qualify to borrow $2,000 or more on their signatures. By checking a box on his American Express bill, a cardholder gets an instant loan. Carte Blanche has a gold card too; it is good for two years, unlike ordinary cards that have to be renewed annually...
...Brooks, 30, paid cash for all her major purchases for her first nine years after graduating from Wayne State University in Detroit because she feared she lacked the self-discipline to handle credit. Now, as co-owner of a recently founded catering business, she needs credit; the business cannot borrow unless Miss Brooks and her partner, another single woman, prove their personal creditworthiness. Says Janet: "I've tried Master Charge, Carte Blanche, Diners Club, local stores, you name it. I walk into a store and apply for a charge account; I get back a notice that my credit...
...demoralizing to blacks. In the past few years, black students at Harvard have seen themselves under increasing attack, particularly in the fact of academic reaction against affirmative action. The answer to HRBSA's protest against the Lampoon, therefore, will not come by labelling the magazine as racist. Rather--to borrow from the wording of the protesters' petition--in the future the magazine's editors must be sensitive to and refrain from "Iacial insensitivity" toward the black community...
Thanks to Manet's etchings and a few haunting daguerreotypes, the poet's face is more familiar than his work. Eyes: piercing and "as brilliant as drops of coffee," to borrow Baudelaire's own phrase. Face: as angled with cutting edges as an ascetic on a fast. Mouth: mocking and self-mocking, with lips shaped for sneers and blasphemies. Dress: black with dazzling white shirt and pale pink gloves-Satan as dandy. Add a setting (thick carpets, low lights, leather volumes of the more decadent Latin poets, the fragrance of hashish everywhere, a black girl coming...