Word: figs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mean, it wasn't as though we had much to pack. We weren't even wearing fig leaves...
Seraph: We'll get to the fig leaves in good time. Right now, let's talk about the actual burglary of the TKGE. To the best of your recollection, what happened that...
...That's playing with history," objected State Cultural Properties Review Committee Chairman Albert Schroeder. "It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard," said State Historian Myra Ellen Jenkins. As the controversy wore on, one Santa Fe wag suggested placing a fig leaf over the word savage. Someone else proposed a second obelisk dedicated to "the gallant Indians who died fighting for their homeland...
...British royal family to visit the U.S.S.R. since the revolution, but she insisted on being treated like an average tovarishch while in Kiev. At the Hotel Moskva on October Revolution Street she exchanges prepaid vouchers for her meals (breakfast: salami and cheese, two boiled eggs, black bread, fig jam, coffee-$1.50). Next week her father Prince Philip and her fiancé Mark Phillips will join her and watch her ride in the European equestrian championships. The normally obligatory visit to Lenin's tomb in Moscow has been dropped from Philip's itinerary, perhaps in quiet recognition...
Women in Love. Ken Russell's lush adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel comes closer to the emotional spirit of the subject period than do any of his subsequent films, and his arty style is appropriate to Lawrentian descriptions of passion. Alan Bates tells how one eats a fig a provocative Glenda Jackson dances before a herd of cattle--these scenes are handled very well, but the social attitudes of the book are lost. Read it first...