Word: chickening
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Slapstick--intentional or not--seemed to draw the most attention in the visual arts. After all, this was the year that students in a Visual and Environmental Studies course were asked to kill a chicken and make a sculpture out of its bones...
...Saturday reunion cookout featured hamburgers, barbecued chicken and potato salad--but co-op residents also prepared homemade bread, home-brewed beer, grilled tofu, and curried tofu with apples and raisins. At least one of the co-op's four dogs had a name tag reading, "Hello, My Name Is Gwendolyn" stuck on her head...
...unlikely to change from blue jeans into a suit or trade in his Dodge van for a Mercedes. Nor is he likely to drop the role of the eternal cutup. "I'll have the grilled baby chicken," he said last week as he sat down for an interview in a Santa Monica restaurant. "And the cuter the better...
...crash's aftermath, each camp has recommended that the other change its ways. So far, except for mostly symbolic gestures, neither is budging. Says George Ball, chairman of Prudential-Bache Securities: "It's almost like a game of chicken. Nobody wants to be the first to give in." Even the two separate federal regulatory agencies that oversee the markets are at a standoff. If any new safeguards need to be imposed, Congress may have to take the initiative by default...
...member of a U.S. Army counterintelligence unit during World War II, Salinger searched for Nazis in newly liberated towns and wrote stories while huddled in foxholes. In Paris he met Ernest Hemingway, who supposedly made a bad impression by shooting the head off a chicken. A postwar Salinger cut a tall, dark and disconcerting figure in New York. An editor's wife recalls meeting "Jerry" at a party in 1952: "He came over to me and said that we ought to run away together. I said, 'But I'm pregnant.' And he said, 'That doesn't matter. We can still...