Word: golds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program includes: 50 mile forced nature walks; The weekly oral treasure hunt--gold fillings, silver bridgework; Arts and Crafts: lampshades are our speciality; Tatoos: every kid wants one; Scientific experiment kits, so they can perform the experiments they learn from...
...summit's hosts, the British demonstrated that they remain the grand masters of pomp. Jimmy Carter may be a no-frills President, but that did not deter the British from launching one extravagant scene after another. At the Buckingham Palace dinner given by Queen Elizabeth II, gold-tunicked trumpeters of the Household Cavalry heralded the approaching guests. In the sumptuous state dining room, all rich red damask, velvet, marble, mahogany and gold, an eight-course feast (including salmon, chicken, carrots and string beans) was served on gold plates by footmen in scarlet tails and white waistcoats, assisted by pages...
...reason for his visit: his induction into the prestigious Academic des Beaux-Arts. Only the second American painter to receive the honor-the first was John Singer Sargent-Wyeth gamely spruced up in the member's uniform, a style decreed by Napoleon: a dress suit richly embroidered with gold. "Splendid," beamed the artist, tucking the traditional bicorne under his arm. "I'll wear it to every dinner party...
Birmingham, should the aristocratic wife of Washington's black mayor "satisfy herself with plastic plants in her house and settle for brightly colored glass ceiling fixtures"? Why does a Harlem socialite place a huge Steuben glass bowl in the center of her coffee table and fill it with gold-painted walnuts? Why, he asks, do so many blacks drink Kool-Aid and smoke Kool cigarettes? Birmingham's answers are even more idiosyncratic than his questions. He theorizes that "the associations of the words Kool and cool, as in 'keeping one's cool' and 'playing...
...Chevy Chase, the road to success has been paved with gold banana peels. As one of the Not Ready For Prime Time Players on NBC'S Saturday Night Live, Chase stumbled to stardom with his pratfall impressions of President Ford, and NBC gave him a $2 million-plus contract to create and star in three of his own TV specials. The Chevy Chase Show, which airs this week (May 5,10:00 p.m. E.D.T.), is a series of quick-cut sketches devoted to TV itself...