Word: fluff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tastes quite nice, but I don't think I could manage the whole tot," said Princess Anne, 18, after a few sips. She did better at the British Navy dice game of "great uckers," rolling a six and helping her team to victory. Actually, the Princess' only fluff on her official review of the frigate H.M.S. Eastbourne involved the time-honored British chip. "You'll have to come to Buckingham Palace," she told a navy cook after tasting his fried potatoes. "We don't have any chips there." Not so, a palace spokesman hastened to reassure...
...criticism of Pat Nixon's current mode. "Maybe now that she has arrived," he says, "she can achieve a feeling of calm and contentment. She can stop considering herself in terms of the average and create her own style. Her little pink coat is too pedestrian an approach. Fluff just isn't becoming on her. She needs an overhauling...
...fondness for corny gags ("I'm here for a worthy cause-the Eskimo Anti-Defamation League. It's not true they're responsible for crime in America"). But he had the old, keen eye for human foibles: a Hindu trying (unsuccessfully) to walk on water, a fluff by Barry Goldwater ("No American wants to be a rich slave; he wants to be a poor slave-I mean poor and free"), Mrs. Robert Kennedy being accidentally belted by a Japanese bandleader, and some of the nation's best football players fumbling foolishly in the rain...
...gefilte fish. In Act II, they pistol-whip Stanley with words-mad, flailing non sequiturs-charging that he "betrayed the organization." A birthday party for Stanley turns into a Walpurgisnacht, as the lights go out and Stanley goes berserk trying to throttle Meg and rape a nubile bundle of fluff called Lulu (Alexandra Berlin). Act III finds Stanley looking like a waxed zombie, Goldberg and McCann promising that "Monty" will take care of Stanley, and escorting him to something that seems suspiciously like a hearse. At the end, Meg and her husband retire to their corn flakes...
...their visit anyway the minute the strike had ended. "What can you say about a strike," says DeVer Sholes, the association's director of research and statistics, "except that they're striking? But the news media are anxious to build up the story, so you have to fluff it up some...