Word: furs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wall Street. The boosterism behind A67 is well founded. Today, despite its century under the American aegis, Alaska's natural resources remain largely untapped. In an 1867 speech supporting the Alaska purchase, Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner spoke glowingly of the region's timber and grasslands, furs and fisheries, copper and gold lodes. Though the fur-seal herds that drew the Russians to Alaska have long since been decimated, trappers still work the beaver streams and fox warrens of the wooded, game-rich Brooks Range. Prospectors gutted gold in billion-dollar lots from the Kenai Peninsula to the Yukon...
...Waddell Gallery, Fifth Avenue's puckish furrier, Jacques Kaplan, is parading an entire "art" show done in fur. Zebra skins are expanded into compositions of svelte veldt op. Big Brother Is Watching You (price $950) is the name of a jaguar hide with two peering glass eyes. One eye winks...
...jumble of fresh pizza, sesame seed rolls, zeppelin shaped loaves. Fruit and vegetables come live and kicking from baskets and boxes. You want meat? Then go next door to the butcher. There's sure to be one. Outside his store freshly slaughtered lambs and rabbits (still with head and fur) hang from red hooks, and well preserved pig heads leer through the front window. Inside Al or Louie or Joe is cutting government choice to your order...
...good one -- it just seemed to work. As you walked through the crowd, everybody had his own particular bag. There was George dribbling through his clarinet; next to him Sam had set up an altar and was burning incense; Judy was wearing her basset hound for a fur piece while her playmate jumped rope with a Slinky...
...Winnie's granddaughter as photographers began shooting the view from the stern. Later, things got even worse when the prankish Duke of Bedford, the show's announcer, peeled off the detachable lower swath of a mink coat Arabella was modeling, leaving her in a sort of mini-fur. "I do not want to be a model!" she cried, bursting into tears. But by afternoon she had calmed down, and swept through the opening show with no tears. She even endured the duke's suave commentary on the fur. "There's nothing like a fur miniskirt," intoned...