Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...designed uniform-white crash helmet and boots, tight black pants and leather jacket-she might be taken for a Hell's Angel auxiliary. Up close, Esther Winders gives no such false impression. The badge on her breast, the pearl-handled pistol and the can of Chemical Mace that hang from her hips, clearly label Mrs. Winders what she is and always wanted to be: a lady...
Above the fireplace in her Hickory Hill bedroom hang two framed quotations. One, a description of Aeschylus from Edith Hamilton's The Greek Way, reads: "Life for him was an adventure, perilous indeed, but men are not made for safe havens." The other, from Ralph Waldo Emerson, says...
...cadet school and finally the comfortable middle-class security of an army commission. "Our breaths stank from hunger," Ladas remembers bitterly, adding that the first meal that ever made him feel stuffed was served at cadet school. A friend recalled last week that Makarezos as a boy "used to hang around when they dug potatoes. He would pick up the culls and take them home for his mother to cook." Poverty was complicated by what Greek peasants, with wonderful exactitude, refer to as "eaters"-the bureaucrats they had to bribe, the merchants who bought their produce at unscrupulously low prices...
Considering the problems pants present, the current female fascination with trousers is a little baffling. Yet they appear everywhere, in all sorts of styles and at all sorts of places. Some hang from the shoulders like farmer's overalls; others hug the hips like an Italian gigolo, or stick to the thighs as if the wearer had just emerged from a shower. In denim and khaki, they go to student protests and love-ins; in lace, they go to dinner and the theater; in twill and flannel, they even go to the office...
...with justice. "Besides, there's no sense in creating a literary ghetto. The implication is it would be serious to write about Portnoy's complaints but frivolous to write about machinery. I just describe characters in terms of the jobs they do, rather than their sexual hang...