Word: dishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bases and ARVN armored units, whirring over a repaired Route 9 and the beautiful Pone River, which marks the border. After ten or 15 minutes in the air, we hovered down in the middle of an expanse of brushwood alongside Route 9. Several ARVN troopers were having their midday dish of rice under the shade of a tank. One of them gestured at the ground and smiled: 'Laos...
...third explanation could be a turning away from politics toward objects of affection. It's a hell of a lot easier to fill a water dish than it is to stand in a picket line or to canvass...
...cultural freedom in Germany, where Klee had been teaching for twelve years, he quietly moved back to Switzerland for refuge without fuss or rancor. Politics did not interest him, and his life-style scarcely changed. With his tabby cats, his violin, and his watercolors hung out to dry like dish towels on a clothesline in his studio, Klee had always seemed like the Caspar Milquetoast of the avantgarde. From boyhood, he had managed to ignore or bypass every emotional crisis that might have distracted him from his art. He shrugged off the end of one love affair with Teutonic priggishness...
Worse still would be the news that he had been reclassified a Cetus, a sun sign that points to no personality traits whatever and cannot be found, embossed or appliquéd, on a single charm bracelet, watch fob, dish towel or shower curtain. Nonetheless, such a possibility now exists. So says Steven Schmidt, whose book, Astrology 14 (Bobbs-Merrill; $4.95), not only shifts the old signs to different dates but also adds two more constellations to the Zodiac...
...just the beginning of the ooze. The imagery reaches beyond usual notions of drug-altered experience, to a more fundamental mistrust of people, institutions, and even the artifacts of day-to-day living. It's a Weltanschauung located in a barren urban setting, studded with carnivorous hair-dryers and dish-rag ghouls...