Word: goat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Avian and Tommy Tune, Bennett's dances have a carnal thrust that evokes aspects of both the play and work life of the city. One balloon-saturated number featuring the elongatedly energetic 6-ft. 6-in. Tommy Tune is a bit like meeting E.E. Cummings' mythical "goat-footed balloonMan" in Central Park in the spring...
...market crashed in 1929, Leo and Teddy are joined forever at the hip by a tough, flexible band of flesh. Their father Durwood is an odd-job country dreamer; their mother Stella is a former hat-check girl. The twins hop about town with the nimbleness of a randy goat. The local moviehouse and pub are their real academies; indeed a case can be made that much of the novel is a celebration of the drinking life...
...only a foothill by Alpine or Rocky Mountain standards, it offers what many consider the finest skiing in the East. Novices can stem their way along the four-mile-long Toll Road; experts can plummet down the narrow, twisting chutes of the National or the Goat. Everyone can enjoy the eclectic night life, which runs from fierce rock to folk singing, in the restaurants and hotels of the compact, bustling village. The average cost of a week's vacation, including meals, moderately priced sleeping accommodations* and lift tickets, but not transportation, is around...
...more basic elements to reach the Valley of Marvels in the Maritime Alps for a report to the Science section. The site of a rich collection of Bronze Age art, the valley is blocked by snow ten months of the year. Ress traveled there in a Jeep over a goat path, across creaky wooden bridges-in the midst of a rainstorm. If anything could dry up one's ardor for work, it might be covering a drought in India. New Delhi Correspondent William Stewart journeyed 1,000 miles to remote Andhra Pradesh, spent a day in near...
...Giles Goat-Boy and The Sot-Weed Factor were investigations into the novel in all its massiveness and variety, storytelling released to its infinite possibilities. By the end of the sixties, though. Barth was looking in a new direction, and Lost in the Funhouse (1969) was a radical departure from everything that had preceded it in Barth's career. A collection of highly experimental stories, the volume was subtitled "Fiction for Print. Tape, Live Voice," and was originally scheduled for publication accompanied by tapes. Packaging prohibited it, and this certainly kept Barth's effort from full realization. In any case...