Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the pleasures of playgoing in Europe is the privilege of buying a drink at a theater bar during the interval. In the U.S., theater patrons have to quench intermission thirst with a wax-enriched fruit drink, or else dash out to a neighborhood bar, there to fret about missing the second-act curtain. In an attempt to get around the New York law prohibiting the sale of liquor where no food is served, a Manhattan theater last year decided to give free drinks to its patrons. This largesse was quickly stopped by the State Liquor Authority...
...then he has acquired not one but three and not at all incidentally a wife. The Koerners belong to a motorcycle club called the Streeterville Scramblers, whom Koerner describes as "the most unlikely motorcyclists you ever saw, mostly professional people and businessmen who've always had the forbidden-fruit desire to try it, but were afraid of the image...
Forbidden fruit or not, the Japanese look in motorbikes is a hot new trend in U.S. transportation. They are buzzing all over the place-putt-putting up and down San Francisco's hills, snaking doctor, lawyer and merchant chief through the thromboid Los Angeles freeways, threading Chicago's Loop at rush hour, beating the parking problem on Manhattan's Madison Avenue. In suburbs, they bring home the bacon and buzz off to the neighbors. In hunting country they go camping and trail-riding. On campus they go on dates and even (when it rains) into dormitories. West...
...animals themselves are examined almost incessantly with wonder and with love. They are all there-hippos that seem to hang by their eyes from the water's surface, gazelles that dart above the grasslands like big, golden bees, leopards that grow on trees like spotted, alarming fruit-and they are there in hundreds. But perhaps the most remarkable animal of all is an old male lion who, after a visit from the zoologist, rises with indomitable dignity and turns his back to the curious camera. Startling indeed to see the King of Beasts with a neat little Band...
...rises with the sun and stands on his head. I ask him upside down what he wants for breakfast, and it's the usual oats, wheat, fruit, yogurt. Then he's off and running. He doesn't have a schedule-it's a palimpsest...