Word: furred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others run a small electrical appliances shop, and Johann Jakob Astor is a retired cop. All of them, and about 75 other families of the same name, live in Walldorf, West Germany. They were the ones fur-trading Millionaire John Jacob Astor left behind to go to America in 1783. And on the 200th birthday of "the great Dollarmacher," the Walldorfers threw a week-long party, drank beer, and recalled the town legend of how old John Jacob arrived for his one return visit: he was wearing humble clothes and was scorned as a failure, whereupon he stormed...
...done away with all of the original verr-ee French accents. But he has added an ingredient that was perhaps mercifully lacking on the stage: where the theater's Irma was the only girl on view, the screen now swings with poules on parade-Kiki the Cossack in fur-topped boots, Lolita in heart-shaped sunglasses, the Zebra Twins, and a nameless tart with a cantilevered bust...
...ideas that art can shape lend the current collection its saving measure of excitement. In Optical Hopes and Illusions, bicycle riders ride cross-canvas to turn into eyeglasses. Etcetera seems nothing more than a row of bright blue buildings, ends up spelling out its title. Making the Fur Fly, Ray's homage to Georges Braque. glues a bird-shaped piece of pelt on a solid background. Signature looks to be a single building, but at the proper distance its doors and windows spell the artist's name and its eaves the date. Jokes all, they are. and technically...
Bands of Lunda natives, armed with knives, machetes, and razor-sharp bicycle chains lashed to sticks, stormed through the streets looking for Baluba youths wearing monkey fur headpieces and animal-skin war dresses. Both sides chased terrified police out of native quarters, brushed aside the pleas of Katanga's President Moise Tshombe when he arrived in the city begging for the carnage to stop...
Guests in top hats and cutaways mingled with others in fur-flapped caps and knee-length yakskin boots last week outside the tiny Buddhist chapel in Sikkim's dollhouse Himalayan capital of Gangtok. Wedding parcels from Tiffany's were piled side by side with bundled gifts of rank-smelling tiger and leopard skins. Over 28,146-ft. Mount Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain and Sikkim's "protecting deity," hung a blue haze. It was an "auspicious sign," said Gangtok astrologers, for the wedding of a quiet, blue-eyed New York girl, Hope Cooke...