Word: golde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Come Home is another worm-turns farce, starring Peter Sellers. But as the-tunnel lengthens from the cellar of the Rainbow to the vault of the bank, Delderfield's story takes on a certain serpentine depth. Charlie becomes disenchanted with Delphine and indifferent even to the pot of gold at the end of the Rainbow. Yet he perseveres...
...rings from a single cigarette puff. A civil servant played his accordion nonstop for 26 hours and 20 minutes. One 15-year-old gulped down 19 pickled onions in two minutes. They were all contestants in Cosmorama, a Screwball Olympics held in Lingfield, England, where the equivalent of a gold was winning an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. The show's Bruce Jenner was Tory Roy Hatter, 25, vice chairman of the Young Conservatives and new holder of the world record for nonstop political speeches-29 hr. 12 min. 30 sec. of peroration on codfishing, women...
...Alphonse Mucha was a sculptor too, and nothing in this show epitomizes the art nouveau vision (or fantasy) of woman better than a bust he designed around 1899 for a Parisian jeweler. This astonishing object, whose form shifts like water in the twining reflections of silver flesh and gold hair, is perversely liturgical-a parody (done, one should recall, for a public whose cultural background was still Catholic) of medieval head reliquaries. The image, however, is not a saint or a magdalen but that sibylline bitch of the fin-de-siècle imagination, the Fatal Woman, La Belle Dame...
...almost every step over yoga parlors, t'ai chi ranches, Scientology centers, Subud temples, Sufi congregations, TM ashrams, Hare Krishna missions, Zen monasteries, astrology academies and tarot prophets. The flyways from East to West are dense with flocks of migratory swamis who come bearing wisdom and go lugging gold. A bazaar of the bizarre if ever there was one, and its most exotic merchandise, the pearl beyond price, is something known as brahmacaryam, samadhi, marafat or, in plain English, the mystical experience...
...figure cutting across the ice at Madison Square Garden had hardly changed since the Winter Olympics in 1968. After gliding off from Grenoble with a gold medal for figure skating, Peggy Fleming had spent eight years on the ice-show circuit, married a dermatologist and, by last week, decided to put her career into the deep freeze temporarily. The reason: her first child, due in January. "We wanted to have a baby for a long time, but it just didn't happen," said Fleming, 28. "I decided to go back to work and start thinking about other things. Sure...