Word: glitter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before the police found the station wagon, and it was many hours after that before they began investigating reports started by drunken demolition workers who had wandered into nearby bars to celebrate. After three days, the demolition site was aswarm with FBI agents and police, combing the debris for glitter. They pumped water out of the basement of the abandoned building, screening the water for baubles, while downstream, eager laborers panned for gold. They picked and they plucked and they poked. After persistent questioning, some of the demolition workers began talking, and five men were arrested. Nearly...
...Bounce & Glitter. He looks 45, and, in the words of one of his writers, "he thinks he is 19." He diets, drinks very little, and doesn't smoke at all. Advancing age frightens him. So he seldom stops to think about it, zipping around golf courses or around the world, giving the winged chariot a run for its money. This has made him a transient in his own home. He jokes that the towels in his bathroom say HERS and WELCOME STRANGER. His wife spends most of her time working for Catholic charities. They have four children. The oldest...
...Metropolitan Opera had two new productions ready to greet the opening of its 79th season last week-a lavish but disappointing Aïda and a modest Manon. Aïda succeeded in sharing some of the opening night glitter with its $50-a-seat audience, but it was plagued by the galloping vulgarity that now and then attacks the Met's production staff. Manon appeared with a blush three nights later and, despite troubles of its own, triumphed quietly...
...Russian circus--at least this one--emphasizes polished, difficult performances with little of the American circus' glitter. If this means less drama, it also means much less vulgarity. The fat lady, the tatooed man and the dog-faced boy do not represent a great loss...
...Glitter in the first...