Word: drip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lord every so often and using plenty of Mayfair slang. I tell how debs get through dull parties by hiding War and Peace in the loo of the Dorchester where the dances are given. But a girl has to have lived or something. Otherwise she'll be a drip. So I thought I'd throw in some sentences like. "Lesbians aren't my swooniest subject." I mean, it came naturally after I had that woman with the glittery eyes corner me in a closet. I escape, of course. One of my friends, the daughter of an actress...
...family of cartoon monsters. Vulgar, egomaniacal Mama (Ruth Gordon) is a compulsive shopper with delusions of solvency. Masochistic Papa (Walter Matthau) is a corner-cutting shoe manufacturer who is going bankrupt in a paroxysm of anguish and gallows humor. Son Bernie (Anthony Holland) is a leaky, self-expressing drip, the kind that leaves a brown stain in a washbowl. At play's end, simple-witted Bernie is out in the once pristine West shilling with a tom-tom for some once noble Indians who are now corrupt enough to con the tourists with their fabricated trinkets. This scene contains...
Died. Giovanni Achille Gaggia, 66, onetime Milanese cafe owner who put the press in espresso coffee in 1936 by adding a mechanical lever to his old drip machine to pressure hot water, steam and coffee into the thick syrupy brew that became an Italian specialty, after World War II started the first manufacture of pressure coffee machines; of complications following a fall; in Milan...
Exchange of Fluids. For the worst cases, Dr. John E. Kiley of Albany Medical College hurried in to perform peritoneal dialyses-exchange of body fluids in the abdominal cavity. The doctor put a big hypodermic needle through the abdominal wall of each baby, and through it he dripped a sugar solution until the little bellies were slightly bloated. After an hour, a similar amount of fluid was drained off, and some of the salt, mixed and diluted, came with it. The needle stayed in place, and the drip-and-drain process was repeated every four hours, round the clock. Dr.Kiley...
...Beats. The Group's bloody awfulness pales however by comparison with the work of U.S. "action poets"-known to other poets as "The Drip School" and to the nonreading public as beatniks...