Word: headlessness
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Eccentrics are not very plentiful these days, but the irreverance they represent is essential for survival. The Gardner Museum and all the letters, drawings, priceless paintings and china and carved doors and plaster casts and orchids and headless Greek statues in it are almost a monument to eccentricity. Mrs. Jack's place helps us step back from the world--if only for a moment--to laugh at all the absurdity...
...Maguire's employer, continued to run around like a headless chicken this week, first stating none of its representatives would appear at meetings on the consultant's qualifications, then showing up at Vellucci's meeting--but remaining in the background...
Darting first one way, then the other, a headless eel was loose in the Middle East last week. So some Japanese described the skyjacked J.A.L. 747 as it flew east from Amsterdam to Dubai, then west again to Damascus, and finally to its last landing in Libya in an eerily aimless 87-hour journey that endangered the lives of all aboard and caused Israel to go on military alert. Fearing that the jumbo jet might be used in a kamikaze attack on one of their cities, the Israelis were prepared, if it came too close, to black out their entire...
...amount of speechifying, however, could dim the fact that the American Party, founded three years ago and made up of various state parties that had backed Wallace in the 1968 presidential election, was what one dispirited conventioneer called a "headless horseman." The delegates nominated a lame-duck Republican Congressman from California named John Schmitz for President and Thomas Anderson, 61, conservative publisher of Florida Grower and Rancher magazine for Vice President...
...makers have long chafed under the advertising restrictions imposed by the National Association of Broadcasters Code Authority, which must approve all television commercials. The Code Authority decrees that a live model in a bra commercial must be fully clothed and if a mannequin is used, it must be headless or armless-preferably both. In an era of explicitness-and occasionally bralessness-some bra makers are eager to push the product beyond a plastic torso or levitating apparition. Lately they have been pressing the code to its literal limit, with some strange results...