Word: ghee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eyes, smells the flower, grins and flings it to someone else. A woman devotee bounces with her baby's face pressed in her sarong. Another child hops at her feet, his hands thrust to the ceiling. A devotee jumps from alongside the altar with a burning brass tin of ghee-soaked cotton. He dodges his fellow devotees, offering each the burning ghee, or clarified butter. Everyone passes his hand over the sweet smelling ghee and touches his forehead...
...flowers, burning ghee, white-haired brush and water are offered during the aroti ceremony as a sign of love, because Krishna is pleased when people offer him these gifts...
...been worried they wouldn't find any dope right away so she had scrounged around and gotten together some exorbitantly-priced lids. These she dumped into a saucepan of butter. When heated, the butter separated, the white stuff and the weed went down and the clarified stuff, or ghee, and the essence of the marijuana surfaced. Cooled and solidified, the clear part was scooped into an oil can which came to Mexico cradled in the spare tire. A dab made Merilee and Sam happier until noon and everybody else none the wiser...
Flat broke, they wired South Philadelphia and South San Angel and from various parents received just enough money to get them back across the border through T.J. The ghee had long since run out and the trip was a real sweetheart, Alfred humping away uselessly at Girl in the cramped back seat, Sam driving in silence and Merilee and Girl getting bad karma from everything. Girl finally bit Alfred's tail, but Merilee restrained herself...
...make vanity trips to Rio lack Senhora Gonçalves' sangfroid; they prefer to sneak away "for the carnival," returning miraculously refurbished to the astonished delight of their husbands and friends. The undisputed king of Rio's colony of cutaneous cutters is Ivo Pitanguy (pronounced pee-tahn-ghee), a theatrically handsome 44-year-old doctor who jets from his clinic in Rio to ski slopes in Europe, hotly pursued by glamorous, albeit sagging socialites. Admitting to "the largest experience in breasts in the world," Pitanguy has a small clientele on the Continent but does his major overhauls...