Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frightening place, full of omens and nameless entities, some hostile, others benevolent. His posture, Don Juan insists, must be that of "a warrior"-agile, perfectly disciplined, capable of acting with "controlled abandon." In the Yaqui sorcerer's system, drugs help in approaching this state by breaking the crust of ordinary perception and revealing the baffling dimensions of experience the sorcerer must deal with...
...movies fail to grasp the nature of their oppression. Kept around the Hollywood plantation for so long, surviving only on the bit parts the studio masters would throw their way, the black actors and actresses are jumping at the new demeaning major roles like starving slaves after a crust of bread: They view it as their chance to make it, not realizing that by making it on Hollywood's terms they are only tightening the shackles of bondage around their people's minds. One is forced to agree with Griffin when he says: "If not hiring some aspiring young black...
...earth, Mars and the moon, is "differentiated"; that is, the planet was once hot enough for its material to soften and flow. During this period, the heavier elements settled toward the core while the lighter ones, taking radioactive elements with them, rose to the surface to form a crust...
...Anne Armstrong, co-chairman of the G.O.P. National Committee. Indefatigably amiable, perpetually smiling, cello-voiced, she was charged, appropriately, with winning over Democrats to the Republican ticket. Her speech was perhaps the best offer a Republican ever made a Democrat. She herself is a convert. Brought up in upper-crust Creole society in New Orleans, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar, she remained a Democrat until-it must be said-she married the very model of a Marlboro man, sandy-haired Tobin Armstrong, whose Texas ranch is measured in miles rather than acres. She has thoughts of running for public...
Tennis, anyone? The now famous drawing-room comedy line was delivered back in the '20s by a young actor named Humphrey Bogart. He projected an image of white-flanneled, upper-crust tennis player that lingers to this day. Yet in the last few years millions of Americans of every age, class and color have taken up the game. The number of outdoor courts is increasing at the rate of 4,600 a year, and indoor facilities have doubled since 1969 to more than 500. By all accounts, tennis is the fastest growing participant sport of the 1970s...