Word: caning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wakes to a nightmare life with an insanely jealous husband who has no eyeballs, like Orphan Annie. His blindness encourages him to visualize elaborate hanky-panky between his wife and his attorney, Robert Taylor. When Husband Howard disappears in a fiery explosion, Barbara grows restive. Howard's cane begins tap-tapping around the house at midnight. She moves into the apartment behind a beauty parlor she owns, clearly preferring the mud-packed monstrosities that sit out front all day to the night folk who appear in her back room after hours. First, there is Howard again, hideously scarred. Then...
Malamondo pretends to investigate contemporary youth in Europe, following the guidelines laid down by such through-the-keyhole documentaries as Mondo Cane and Women of the World...
...Sugar Cane & Cow's Blood. Almost alone among Indian industrial complexes, Kirloskar has no roots in textiles...
...Welshman. He fought with distinction beside Wellington in the Peninsula and at Waterloo; he gossiped and gamed at the best clubs of Regency London. He matched wit and waistcoats with Beau Brummell, shot pistols with Lord Byron. And in his later years, he sat sucking the handle of his cane in the window of his Paris club while the Revolution of 1848 raged in the streets below. Then he wrote his reminiscences...
Through jails and trials the project members had their closest contact with whites. John Faresse, and his nephew Tony, the two lawyers who run Marshall and Benton Counties; Sheriff J. M. "Flick" Ash of Marshall County, and Roach, his redheaded deputy who carries a hefty cane on Freedom Days, and whose face turns nearly as red as his hair when a freedom worker approaches; Sheriff Brooks Ward and Deputy Oliver Crumpton, the "laws" of Benton County: some of the workers got to know these men quite well...