Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rivers wait, as if struck by some icy thought. A woman with fagots on her head hurries across a bridge (see detail, page 53). Upon the ice, the polished green crust of earth's secret blood, some skate, others spin tops, and still others play at curling, with faint cries...
Fustian Soirees. The answer to the most commonly asked question about Von Hoffman is that he is 40. Only his writing has faded bell-bottoms and beads. His faint-striped suits are from Brooks Brothers (with cuffs). With his almost white hair combed straight back and struggling to edge down over his shirt collar and his delicately pale skin, he more resembles an aristocratic Prussian officer than a commune leader. Something of a bon vivant, he swings with more of an old-fashioned zest for good wine, women, song and conversation than with any new lifestyle. He used...