Word: igloos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friend's suggestion, he picked up a Bell & Howell, took a three-week course in cinematography in Rochester -the only film training he ever had. Returning north, he shot some terrific footage of a walrus hunt, some beautiful quiet splices of life in an igloo, some hilarious takes in which an Eskimo ate a phonograph record and got bounced on his behind by a seal. All these reels he assembled in a 70-minute film, a polar pastoral volted with the same vitality that sizzles in the Eskimo...
...unsexiness as Zsa Zsa Gabor makes out of her libido. "Crawling out of bed, I girdled myself," she would write, "with the aid of a block and tackle." Or, "I've been favorably compared to a whale, a pachyderm, a hippopotamus, an untidy featherbed, an Eskimo igloo during the summer thaw, a charwoman at daybreak. Prince Christian of Hesse, spotting me in bathing costume offshore at Antibes, mistook me for a rubber mattress. But I became a celebrity anyhow...
...reading, which is, of course, to find out about something, will be a mystery. Reading for meaning must be the aim from the very beginning, and if this concept is not established, there will be difficulties later. Even if the beginning reader knows the meaning of such words as igloo, bamboo, racoon, etc., which is doubtful, he will have a tough time with the context of something like "The song of the toot root has made the princess snore...
...publisher. Her 85? paperback sold out fast at the Harvard Coop, which reordered, sold out again. Sensing a phonetic gold mine, Author Wenkart wrote The Man in the Moon, which adds the and short i in such sentences as "The moon looks as if it is an igloo." Using the principle of adding new sounds rather than new words, three subsequent Wenkart primers tackle u as in fun, o as in rock and e as in desk, plus the silent e that gives vowels a long sound as in pipe and cave...
Gigot. Ugh. In the middle of the cellar sits a mighty peculiar pile of something. Could it be an igloo of grease? Or maybe a Volkswagen wearing pajamas? All at once a face comes out of it, and what a face! The features are covered with hair, the hair is covered with dirt. But just as the customers are about to scream, the monster waddles comically across the floor and revolves a massive iron wheel that looks as if it opened at least a sluiceway in Grand Coulee Dam. The pipe roars like Niagara, and from...