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...ever-more-erotic and exciting Straight Backwards Time (S.T.B.), Billy the Surf Bum's mother was gazing at her navel (belly-button to you). she was entranced. in her navel were crawling four miniature St. Bernard puppies, each with a cask around its neck containing the hole whorl. "my, mmmmmmmmmy," Billy the Surf Bum's mother was saying. "i do hope my seeking son can bark better than the first. hardly since the beginning of time has man ever discovered. . . . why why why x y y? people should be more aggressive in their searches for trooth. it's more manly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Whole Yoke Sent Her | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...ceiling, and a cask of oil. In July, off Charleston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fishing: Gladius the Gladiator | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

...Mumm champagne firm to put up $300,000 to build and landscape the chapel above their wine caves near Reims. Foujita did 1,076 sq. ft. of frescoes inside the 47-ft.-long chapel, including a side chapel honoring the Madonna of the Vines, who sits on a wine cask and offers grapes to the infant Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Wild Man of Wisteria | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...Superlatives Fit. "The effect is a bit like being taken to visit the cask of Amontillado," said one awed viewer last week. "You wonder if you'll ever get out." Some Israelis have questioned whether the scrolls merit all the lavish architectural theatrics; Jerusalem children have taken to calling it "the Chinese pagoda." But after inspecting it, supporters have rallied to its defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Endless Cave in Jerusalem | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

...from Spain. Second best and far behind are used 50-gallon bourbon barrels from the U.S., in which most Scotch is matured. Because of rapidly rising Scotch demand and production, used bourbon barrels are becoming scarce, and have doubled in price over the past 18 months to $28 per cask...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Over the Barrel | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

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