Word: golde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...material imaginable. Some striped jobs look like pousse-café or rugby sweaters gone south; others come in cable knits and heathery cottons. There are jacquard knits, woolens in every shade from bubble-gum pink to moonstone gray and Lurex numbers aglitter with specks of gold and silver...
...hundreds every weekend, avaricious tourists with gleams of glory in their eyes. The onslaught created such confusion and congestion in tiny Downieville, Calif, (pop. 500), that Sheriff Albert E. Johnson had to halt the frantic activity for four days last month. The cause of the stampede: old-fashioned gold fever...
...Roman soldiers. The main instigator of the Crucifixion, however, turns out to be Lucifer. The Evil One mingles with the Jewish street crowds and accompanies Judas on his mission of betrayal. In one of the few lines with a parallel in both versions, Judas now says, "Oh what cursed gold I received, turning me into a traitor." The 19th century text goes, "Oh cursed money I received from you, the Jewish rot, the scum." Schwaighofer has also added other new elements: a loudspeaker system and stage lights for nighttime performances...
...author's warm-weather fiction. But Novelist Weldon is much too fond of the kind of ornateness that clutters Iris Murdoch's lesser novels-in this case, the ponderous idea that Hamish is Rumpelstiltskin and Elsa is the poor girl for whom he spins straw into gold. Gemma insists that Elsa do huge batches of typing each night. Elsa can't manage it, but Hamish...
Straw into gold-but what's the point? The remainder of the fairy tale requires that the girl guess Rumpelstiltskin's name or give up her first-born child to him, and sure enough, Hamish's origins are unknown, at least to Elsa and the reader. Gemma ultimately reveals her husband's identity at the end of an amusing but overlong story of her introduction...