Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is both a monstrous willfulness and a monstrous absurdity to the whole affair. But no amount of contemporary psychology can controvert the evidence that here, in all its banality and glory, was a true love story. Kitty (in the metaphor of her biographer) was a magic bucket in a fairy tale. When Parnell died, she went empty. The sometime spell that had changed her from a Victorian housewife into a femme fatale was broken. All too soon she lost her powers, her odd beauty, and from time to time her sanity. After World War I she ended up back...
Entertainment. Classic Square entertainment involves someone who just finds an open space, puts out a bucket or guitar case for contributions, and begins to perform, expecting to draw a crowd. These days there are two prime spots for this sort of thing: Brattle Square, usually late in the afternoon or early at night, and the front door of the Coop, a couple of hours after closing time. Lately a group of jugglers have been using the Brattle Square spot and they are okay if you like jugglers. The Coop location has weird acoustics because of its cave-like qualities...
...Other tenants are quietly abandoning her apartment building, joining the migrant tribes that suddenly appear, briefly camp, and just as suddenly move on "to the East," leaving no trace but the marks of bonfires on the pavement. Machines no longer work. The electricity is off. Water sells by the bucket and good air is beyond price. Only the bureaucracy goes on, still fussing about regulations as if nothing has happened. Bureaucrats, the government and the press are contemptuously referred to as "the talkers" by the general population. People slowly understand that the way the world is officially described has nothing...
...with thick cement walls. From time to time we could feel the building shudder from incoming rockets. About 500 evacuees were already waiting in line. One Marine passed out green tags ("For you, not your baggage," he explained). Another, stripped to the waist, walked down the line with a bucket of ice water, reviving the dehydrated evacuees. "You might as well sit down and be comfortable," an officer told us. "We've got 500 people ahead of you, and the second show doesn't start for two hours." The walls quivered from a barrage of shells outside...
...prominence and pertinence than the point, true as it is, that he is a survivor who has outlived his enemies. One era of social reform is over, and the cycle of history has swung round to the problems he knows the best and fears the most-the lunch-bucket issues of recession and rising unemployment. To Meany, Ford's economic program ("the weirdest one I have ever seen") will not pump enough money quickly enough into the economy to do any real good...