Word: corking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, for his first New York audience in five years, Baker played at a Long Island nightclub called the Cork 'n Bib. He was-cursed with a sleepy drummer, an eccentric pianist, and the abiding worry that he may have to speak to Manhattan from the suburbs for some time to come: New York City is notoriously loath to permit ex-addicts the "cabaret card" they need to perform in its nightclubs. But the welcome Chet won was as enthusiastic as it was deserved. He looked pained when he played and downright wounded when he sang...
...piercing, but insists that the girl buy a pair of twenty-dollar earrings before she leaves. After the potential piercee picks out her earrings, she sits on a stool with her back against the wall, while the piercer jabs a thick needle through the lobe into the cork he is holding behind it. The pain is minimal, and the results are often the best of the three schools, because the piercer is so experienced...
...seven days, the isle of Sao Jorge in the Portuguese Azores pitched like a cork. It was another of the unsettling earthquakes that periodically shake the middle-Atlantic archipelago. As Sao Jorge's 20,000 inhabitants fled into the streets, at least 1,200 of their stone and tile houses crumbled, and the local jailer saved the lives of his five prisoners by freeing them on parole shortly before the hoosegow collapsed. An eleven-ship rescue fleet evacuated 1,800 islanders, whose chief, and understandable, concern was the plight of their abandoned unmilked cows...
Among these are such elder statesmen as Dean Acheson, 70, to whose acerbic tongue Kennedy liked to listen -but whose advice he did not often accept. Then there are Benjamin Cohen, 69, Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, 62, legal-eagle wheeler-dealers of the early New Deal days, and James H. Rowe, 54, now a Washington law partner of Corcoran's and a longtime Johnson political adviser. Spanning the Truman and Kennedy administrations is Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford, 56, a peerless behind-the-scenes political troubleshooter who is as close to Johnson as he was to Truman...
During those years beneath the blue lantern, Colette held court much as Proust did in his cork-lined room. Her blue eyes ringed with kohl, her curls carefully brushed over her immense forehead, she received friends sitting up in bed, nibbling garlic and sipping champagne. But she no longer wished to meet the young: "I dread them. It is in the course of nature for declining strength to be scared of up-and-coming new forces. The children who write me letters lay claim to great timidity. But it is for those of my age to feel timidity, almost...