Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...education. I also lived in England for a long time, but that doesn't mean I became an Englishman!" In fact he was all for keeping the cold war out of Africa. "I recall an old Swahili proverb," said Kenyatta. " 'When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.' If East and West fight over Africa, only the Africans will suffer...
...piece, the golden burst had a prosaic beginning : Bertoia was simply trying to find a way of making metal wires spring from a core, like petals from a flower or rays from the sun. In other pieces Bertoia clusters metal rods that stand straight up like bronze-colored grass and, when touched, resound like tiny organ pipes. In these the secret of Bertoia's work comes clear. "In my walks home," says he in his whitewashed garage-studio near his farm in Bally, Pa., "I pass by wheat fields swaying in the breeze and can hear the rustling. Sculpture...
...Because they don't know a bloody thing about me. I'm a six-foot prop that wants a pint o' beer, that's what." With this Teddy-boyish declaration of grog-on-ice independence, the "Saxon Revolt" that is currently burning up the grass roots of British literature breaks out with brawling and exhilarant abandon on the screen. Adapted by Alan Sillitoe from his rumbustiously original first novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is easily the best British movie since Room at the Top-a loud, hilarious, indignant, contented, malodorous belch of prosperous protest from...
...liqueurs) that he will want to see Dr. Funk of Tahiti ("redolent of French rums and absinthe"). Actually, the author of these "Polynesian" cocktails has never roamed the South Seas. Nevertheless, salty, peg-legged Victor Bergeron, 58, has parlayed a flair for serving good food amid a supply of grass skirts, Tiki gods and outrigger canoes into the most successful chain of seaweed restaurants west of Suez: Trader...
...neck off it, barbecue it, and it's changed. And that's just what we've done with all the specialty food." Bergeron also serves French cooking, but refuses to promote it. "Why should I?" he asks. "I can make so much more money off the grass...