Word: garters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess. Clad only in garter belt and one dress shield, I held off the entire elite of the Trobriand Islanders, a race who possess no words for "why" or "because." I am the New Woman whose astonishing history is a poignant amalgam of vulgar dreams and knife-sharp realities. Soon, by an extreme gesture, I shall cease altogether to be human and become legend like Jesus, Buddha, Cybele...
...heather and blue hydrangeas. Thirty sets of banners will festoon the town streets, and fresh paint is being splashed everywhere. As Decorator-in-Chief Lord Snowdon, Charles' uncle, airily put it: "I have designed the whole thing entirely for television." That brought an angry retort from Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter King of Arms and chief authority for the ceremony's heraldic details: "I don't regard myself as part of show business...
...should agree with us, for we do not agree among ourselves. But if you showed clearly that you were preoccupied by our preoccupations, that you can dance to our music and sing to our tunes, you would do yourself and your office more good than would a hundred Garter ceremonies or the dutiful launching of a thousand ships...
...REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS. American alligator, blunt-nosed leopard lizard, San Francisco garter snake, Puerto Rican boa, Santa Cruz long-toed salamander and Texas blind salamander, Houston and Inyo County toads...
...corner of Jersey and Brook-line, a lone hawker stands shivering. "Get your girl a souvenir garter," he barks, waving a cardboard with a lone garter. "Get your genuine World Series garter, last one left." There are no takers...