Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue for his 54th birthday in 1943. The Austrian State Printing Office, a Nazi enterprise at that time, printed the stamps in Vienna. No one knows how many went into circulation. But when the Third Reich fell two years later, some 20 million remained, and they have been gathering dust ever since in the basement of the State Printing Office...
...star, so you hitched up your jeans and waited for godot. Empty rooms are relative, so you slid up and down the legs of the glass table looking for the cake that said Eat Me and waited for your prince to come. So you scribbled your initials in the dust beneath the table, so you scribbled his initials in the steamiest on the mirror, so you scribbled your initials with his last name appended on someone's dirty window, and it rained. And at college you learned that, if you go far enough, all roads lead to hell...
...were not, for example, looking for the girl in the grey flannel suit. They were, apparently, looking for you and me and the girl down the hall, the one who runs a vacuum cleaner every Sunday morning at 6 a. m. In high school the corridors smell of chalk dust, and lunch costs 45c with milk, and who the hell are they looking for? I, you see, knew all the Presidents once, but Margic knew all the Presidents and could run the track faster than anyone else. And you, I understand, knew the atomic numbers of every single element...
...could we know that the violinist would sit in the room next door and cry, as rug, walls and violin gathered dust? How could we know that the Merit Scholar would run up and down the hallways for exercise, shouting the lyrics to "Rockabye Baby"? How could we know that the Shakespeare expert would sneak around the dorm at night stealing food from everybody's rooms? That the poet, our roommate, would never get out of bed? That the biochemist, three doors down, never slept? That the aristocrat would run away, leaving behind only her collection of bottlecans? How could...
...this can be applied is shown by Mike Prokosch '70 in his review of a recent film which particularly begs for the treatment because it is "revolutionary" in its pretensions. The review was called," Another Counter Revolutionary Film Bites the Dust...