Word: butterscotch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Northwestern University to landscape a landfill between the campus and Lake Michigan. As for his mix at the Dwan Gallery, Morris has priced it at $3 a pound. If no buyers show up, he could not care less. Right now what rivets him is the beauty of the butterscotch-colored grease-and the fact that a small plant has taken root in the earth...
...glance at the two girls with their dribbly double butterscotch icecream cones, and the San Francisco cable-car conductor decided that such delights were not for him. "Ladies," said he sternly, "you've got to get off if you don't throw away your ice-cream cones." Since Frisco's conductors are nothing if not captains of their cars, a chastened Lynda Bird Robb, Husband Chuck and their official San Francisco hostess meekly stepped off the Russian Hill clang-along to hoof it a while on their sightseeing trip...
Picture of Travail. The interview began in front of the Guggenheim museum (where a beatnik type "swept off his rakish Astrakhan hat and stood transfixed"), then moved on to Schrafft's (where John Jr. had a butterscotch sundae), and ended up at a friend's Fifth Avenue apartment. Conniff and Considine are unabashed admirers of "the young woman who bears such assorted burdens as Gallup's pronouncement that she is the most admired person of her sex in the world ... a woman who has been on the best-dressed lists most of her adult life ... the smile...
...issue of the paper devotes more than a full page and a half to photos and sketches of "Cliff Dwellers" (sic). Reporter Marian Christy notes the prevalence of dark knee skimming shifts, turtleneck jerseys, ponchos, and capes. "Sunny colors and sprightly plaids rate," she writes, and "yellow, orange, purple, butterscotch...
Satire, or a bit of wit, might have given pop art a certain charm. But the pop artists do not expose the vulgar; they merely exploit it, down to the last pecan-covered butterscotch...