Word: golde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...serious about this thing. This is a contest, with entries and winners and prizes and all. If you still have all those real tough 45s you used to spin every afternoon after school, then you better go get 'em. This isn't Fonzie-Fifties stuff, but Solid Gold Sixties and very early Seventies vinyl; the notes that used to make you park your carcass in front of the idiot box when Shindig came...
...another light, however, the pipeline has stained an increasingly rare social environment, one of relative simplicity and decency. To measure money's impact on the Alaskan lifestyle is difficult. But without a doubt, the pipeline, like the gold rush, has in many respects altered Alaskan society for the worse...
Dowries are as old as the country itself. In rural Greece and its islands, nubile maidens are decked out on feast days in necklaces, bracelets and headdresses of old gold coins as well as silver and heirloom jewelry, the better to lure would-be suitors. In Epirus in northern Greece, a bride goes to her wedding on horseback, carrying jewels in a casket; in Crete, the dowry often follows her on a mule train. In Athens, a monthly newspaper called Arranged Marriage provides a kind of form chart of the financial attractions available in the marketplace of love. (Sample entry...
...Digger" is a slang term first used in the 1850s to describe a miner in the Australian gold fields. It was popular in World War I as a nickname for an Australian soldier, and today is sometimes employed as a generic name for any Australian...
...arrogant 18th century hero of Wicked Loving Lies, is "a savage dangerous animal" with "steely" muscles, eyes "like shards of splintered glittering glass" and a contemptuous conviction that "all women are whores at heart." Marisa, the heroine, is a "strange mixture of defiant child and mysterious woman" with "dark-gold curls [and] panther eyes" -not to mention a will of custard. Dominic and Marisa meet on page 42. On page 62 he rapes her. On page 86 he ties her to a bedpost and assaults her again. On page 192 the hero rips the heroine's gown...