Word: drum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite her given name, De Monaghan's gender is unmistakable. She is the most erotic film teen-ager since Lee Remick's drum majorette in A Face In the Crowd. But Jerome is a creature of such intellectuality that lust comes to him in whispers. It is not Claire's torso that he craves. Only her knee. In time he manages to palpate the beloved object...
...allow these people to speak, would have been tantamount to letting Charles Manson drum up support for more killings," he added...
...argued that one such misuse of speech is the use of public platforms by high officials of the current national administration to drum up support for their policies of aggressive war. But even if this argument is accepted, last Friday's teach-in was not such an occasion. For Dolph Droge and the Administration's Asian proteges were clearly not of the policy-making order, and their appearance at Harvard would have done little to advance U.S. policy in Vietnam. Those who totally disrupted the meeting were attacking the right to speak without insuring that the evil they were preventing...
...rate structure that is not far off from that of a car-rental firm. The most inexpensive plane, a Cessna 150, rents for $13 a day and 13? a mile. For traveling businessmen who cannot fly themselves, Johnson will put on a pilot for another 5? a mile. To drum up business, Lease-A-Plane mails its own credit cards to all licensed pilots in each station's area...
...Emerson was in love with the vibrations of his soul, says Anderson. Whitman was even more narrowly self-concerned: he was in love with the smell of his armpits. Whitman swallowed cities, rivers, people in a sort of king-cannibal self. The firmament existed only to serve as his drum...