Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...album jacket there is a woodland scene that includes one full-breasted wench, two nuzzling birds and three enormous bees. Inside is the sort of sex-education lecture that would weight the eyelids of a twelve-year-old ("Let's begin with the egg..."), redeemed now and then by snippets of fascinating information, such as the fact that the male testicle, in Cammeron's words, is actually "a mass of tiny tubes which if stretched in a line would extend from Lands End to John o' Groat...
...North, the leading figures were just as disparate. Massachusetts' egg-bald, cockeyed Congressman Benjamin Butler in April 1860 was a Southern sympathizer and a devoted backer of Jeff Davis for President of the whole U.S.; he lived to be military governor of occupied New Orleans and became known throughout the South as "Beast" Butler. Illinois' Senator Stephen A. Douglas, with his massive head and dwarfish body, was a man in the middle; in his efforts to please North and South, he became anathema to both. Illinois' Republican Representative Owen Lovejoy had seen his older brother, an abolitionist...
Monsters are out. After almost a decade of gigantic grasshoppers, monstrous mollusks and vicious vegetables, the menace merchants have surveyed their shrinking returns and concluded that overwork at last had killed the pterodactyl that laid the golden egg. With that the world's leading gooseflesh peddlers-American International Films of Hollywood and Hammer Film Productions Ltd. of London-decided to go back on the ghoul standard. The bats were summoned from the industry's well-stocked belfry, and in recent months they have been sucking the green stuff out of the public at an impressive rate. Three...
...researchers gave their prescription for dealing with curanderismo: "Don't fight it-join it." To the incredulous M.D.s who heard the report, Study Director William Madsen, a University of Texas anthropologist, explained: Mexican-Americans still reject the germ theory of disease and infection; to them, a raw egg has more healing power than an antibiotic, and a hospital is a place to go to die. It is useless for M.D.s to assail this quackery. To the Mexican-American, the gringo doctor is the quack. "Just as the Anglo* goes to the folk curist only in the last stages...
...Angeles, U.C.L.A. Theater: The West Coast premiere of Felicien Marceau's ironic comedy, The Egg...