Word: cordes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever the category, Four in a Hat seems to have a way of producing wondering, self-exploratory conversations. "It is like being married," said one hat wearer. "No," replied another. "It is more like being tied with the same umbilical cord." "Do you feel you have to participate?" one hat wearer asked his neighbor last week. "Yes," she replied. "Otherwise I'll lose my hat." "Lose my hat!" repeated Byars with delight. "That's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard...
Lugging their cord-bound cardboard suitcases, the Portuguese workmen trudge across fields toward the unknown. They make up little knots of young and old, converging to form a stream of humanity, silent with uncertainty. The trip turns out to be a nightmare of danger and betrayal, hunger and exploitation. When Antonio reaches Paris at last, Carlos is nowhere to be found. Fellow Portuguese are friendly, but there are no jobs in construction work, let alone carpentry. A pretty nurse he meets tries to be helpful, but her world is too different from that of a poor, illegal immigrant with...
...walking tour of the yard found most freshmen plugged in. And a call that got through to the telephone business office after five busy signals won the promise of a black one with a nine foot extension cord in five days...
...Your excellent article, ". . . And Now a Word about Commercials" [July 12], suffers from one serious omission. It does not mention a device known to the fraternity of electricians as the "blab-off." This consists of an electric cord of any length, with an on-off switch at one end, the other attached to the speaker in the set. With it you can turn off the sound as you wish, while the picture continues. Any electrician will install this thing for a trifling fee. The viewer then need not pay to the sponsor the "heavy tribute" of listening to commercials...
...outdone by Moth, Longaville, when it comes time to read his sonnet, picks up the hand-mike and turns the poem into a rock 'n' roll number with off-stage singers and orchestra. Following suit, Dumaine, flipping the microphone cord like a boa, caresses himself and gyrates as he belts out his rock sonnet while the other men provide a snap-fingered accompaniment--a number that deservedly stops the show...