Word: icebox
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FLASH! Elvis is back! Oh wow! Yank those beers out of the mother icebox. The man, the MAN, the whole cause of everything. He's on the tube, can you believe, singing in a torrent of sweat in a black leather suit--no, wait, it's a high-roll collar dealie, and can you dig his pants? Heartbreak Hotel? Raunchy as ever? Hound Dog? It's too good to be true! That quiver that makes girls moan from their stomachs made me shriek at the top of my lungs: "Elvis, Elvis, you son of a bitch, you are the KING...
...Governor Walter Hickel inaugurated the frosty fiesta on a 42-acre site in Fairbanks (pop. 19,000), the nation's 49th and biggest state was already well into a yearlong shivaree commemorating the 1867 purchase from Russia of what was once derisive ly known as "Seward's Icebox." After a century of erratic growth, it is clear that the icebox is full of goodies...
...also as a ham self-consciously impersonating his own image. T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) lost his mythological status because of the "cringing, obsequious" way he called Augustus John "Master." Besides, after he bragged to the children that he lived on a daily handful of raisins, Lawrence's icebox was discovered to be stuffed with chicken, meat, butter...
...want." (The second is "If there is anything you want and you don't ask for it, it's your own fault.") Days at Topridge are spent in picnicking, canoeing, hiking. Nights are for square-dancing, movie watching, black-tie dinners, and late-night snacks from an icebox stocked with General Foods products. Says one guest, Magnavox Co. Vice President Godfrey Mc-Hugh: "The planning is comparable to the successful management of a large corporation...
...pathos of Soprano Leontyne Price as she got trapped in a prop pyramid before 3,800 people at dress rehearsal; the triumph of opening night, and the quietly joyous reunion of Price with her parents backstage afterward, in which she told her father that there was champagne in the icebox and please to leave her some. The camera even caught more than it meant to. During one rehearsal, Director Franco Zeffirelli unexpectedly waved onstage 226 extras, a gesture that cost Bell $15 a head in fees...