Word: erectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First the pool, with the audience distributed in a horsehoe around it: at one end floats Cleopatra's sturdy raft; at the other, the diving board extends over the water like an erect phallus. Don't laugh--that's the intention. The board clearly conveys the perils of Antony's passion; the longer it gets, the more wobbly and precarious the position--man at his tallest and most triumphantly masculine, may in a second topple into the waves and be lost forever. All we miss is the Esther Williams schtick; what we get is Antony and Cleopatra shouting at each...
During the game, Wilkinson looked far younger than his 62 years, erect and athletic. As he took off his coat and coached in his shirtsleeves (collar but toned, tie neatly in place), the decades slipped away, and I suddenly remembered sports-page pictures of a generation ago, when he was cheering on Oklahoma to that remarkable record...
...league campus so that tourists will have something to pose in front of and students will have something to deface. Harvard was founded by an act of the Massachusetts colonia; legislature, but it seized upon John Harvard as a convenient norminal founder, and used him as an excuse to erect a statue so as not to disappoint anyone...
Monsignor Giuseppe Righi, a tall, erect Vatican diplomat, is flying to New York to take up his post as the Holy See's observer to the United Nations. During a stopover at London's Heathrow Airport, he is accosted by a pair of thugs, bundled into a waiting truck and whisked off into the night. When Righi's ongoing flight departs, the "prelate" in his seat is Colonel Vladimir Panin of the Soviet KGB, physically the monsignor's double, and now fully disguised with a black suit, clerical collar, and a briefcase on his knee...
...arsenal free from the Soviet Union. Fifty Soviet pilots are flying defense patrols for the Cuban air force. Soviet technicians are everywhere; there are more than 400 at one nickel mining and processing facility in eastern Cuba. Teams of Russian electrical specialists have fanned out around the countryside to erect high-tension wires as part of a new nationwide power grid. The Russians are involved in every section of Cuban industry and agriculture and most government ministries, notably including the Ministry of Interior and its espionage branch, the DGI (General Directorate of Intelligence), which works hand in glove with...