Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Iron Mike, Punchy and the rest of the gang back at Stillman's Gym will never believe it, but Willie the Weep McGinnity has become a bullfighting fan. It is only a month or so since Myra, Willie's old lady, dragged him off to Spain ("Willie," she said, "you hit the twin double for four big ones and you expect me to go to the Catskills again?"), but already he has seen three bullfights. The first time Willie went because Myra was out shopping, and it was the only wheel in Madrid. When he got back...
...fan of the Council describes the result like this: "The councillors are like nine Indian chiefs from nine separate tribes." The only informal parties are the "goo-goo" CCA, and the "independents" who like to describe themselves as representing "the little people." Even these lines have been blurred in recent years, as they were in the hiring and firing of DeGuglielmo...
...stragglers were left and the Common returned to its gutted, wasteland appearance. By then everyone, who was anyone, had made his appearance: General Waste-More-Land alias General Hershey-bar had convinced everyone that he should be interned at the earliest opportunity; and Evy (better known as Super-Fan) had graced the Fair with her presence to certify it as an event worthy of notice
...likes her little comforts. "To my stupefaction," she writes, "there was hot water, plenty of it. . . At the Continental in Saigon, there was only cold water." Amid "other luxuries I found at the Thong Nhat Hotel were sheets of toilet paper laid out on a box in a fan-pattern." Since she was served "little cups of tea" almost everywhere she went, she wondered why she got tea at the War Crimes Museum but beer at the War Crimes Commission. "Perhaps I should have asked, but the Vietnamese are sensitive...
...opening my mailbox and catching a glimpse of Robert Vickrey's cover portrait of John Updike tumble out [April 26], I was instantly impressed with a feeling of Andrew Wyeth's nostalgic quality. Being a Wyeth fan, I immediately dove into your cover article and was quite pleased with myself and with Robert Vickrey on reading of John Earth's comparison of the artist Wyeth to the author Updike. I am now hurriedly on my way to our library to uncover every novel by Updike I can find...