Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most days for most Americans, sport is a narrower experience. Sit in the living room. Tug the TV button. Heralded by an announcer-salesman, canned sport pops up on the color screen...
What then of public financing for abortions? Should citizens have to pay for an operation they find morally repugnant? A few years ago, stores sold anihilistically spirited black box: when one pushed a button on its side, the box whirred and opened, a hand appeared from under a lid-and turned the box off. The Supreme Court's latest decision- and Carter's attitude toward it-has something of the same self-canceling effect. The court made abortion legal; now it has rescinded an important advantage of that legality by making it hard for the poor to obtain...
...transformation of industries, the families stumbling around in blacked-out houses, the rapt attention paid to H.V. Kaltenborn, the vacations spent on beaches dark with oil from ships sunk off the New Jersey coast by German U-boats. Hoopes found hundreds of nostalgic oddments. One man remembers a lapel button: "It showed Uncle Sam, and when you pulled the string. Uncle Sam pulled Hitler up on a tree limb and hanged him. The slogan was LET'S ALL PULL TOGETHER." A woman asks, "Do you remember punching oleo up in a bag to make it look like butter?" Restaurants...
Last week, however, blasphemy was once again at issue in the oak-paneled Court No. 8 at London's Old Bailey. The defendants: Gay News (circulation: 20,000), a fortnightly newspaper for homosexuals, and Denis Lemon, 32, editor of the periodical, who came to court with a button saying GAY NEWS FIGHTS ON in the lapel of his conservative three-piece gray suit. The offense: publishing a poem by James Kirkup, in which a Roman centurion describes his sexual relations with the body of the crucified Christ. Prosecutor John J. Smyth called the verses "so vile that it would...
...mockup, on target. In Jacksonville, a children's museum features a model of the ear, nose and throat canals large enough to crawl through. The Boston Children's Muse um has an area called Grandmother's Attic, where gold lame dresses and high-button shoes can be tried on. In Indianapolis, which last year became the site of the world's largest children's museum with the opening of a five-acre, $6.8 million building, an 1860 locomotive and caboose are displayed along with a Victorian railway station...