Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only hope is that oil prices continue spiraling higher and even higher, especially in the U.S. Then some Americans might begin to think before they waste (sorry, consume) the earth's liquid gold in their overheated houses and oversized automobiles...
Funeral ornaments dating back to the Old Silla dynasty (5th-6th century A.D.) display a barbaric splendor never before found in East Asia. Discovered amidst a stash of weapons and earthenware, a crown glitters with spangles of gold and jade that adorn its antler-like shafts. This animal symbolism, some historians believe, attests to the shamanistic beliefs of the early Koreans and suggests that they had more in common with the nomadic horsemen of the Siberian steppes than with their Chinese neighbors...
...film's mode might be described as bargain-basement Graham Greene. The hero, an American expatriate named Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara), is a pimp who, irony of ironies, has a heart of gold. Jack cares for his clients and his employees, provides for his friends, avoids depraved sex and even talks to cats. He is the proverbial good man in a bad time (1971, approaching the end of Viet Nam) and a first-class bore. Even his day-to-day working life lacks thrills. Most of the time Gazzara just wanders about aimlessly with a rueful grin plastered...
FICTION: Birdy, William Wharton Dubin's Lives, Bernard Malamud Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick Good as Gold, Joseph Heller SS-GB, Len Deighton The Best American Short Stories 1978, edited by Ted Solotaroff The Flounder, Günter Grass
...Good as Gold. Heller...