Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...change the original 1932 figures. Such friction might well have been enough to spark violence, but the present explosion has defied control because of still other complicating factors. Christians and Moslems alike are subdivided into sects, each headed by bosses (zu'ama) who have used patronage to build iron loyalty, as well as personal militias...
...following the signs you get to a room with a bare floor, an ancient sewing machine, an ancient iron, and a rack of out-of-fashion and sensible clothes that Raia has fixed. The sun streams through the windows, which look out on various roofs. All this makes Raia neither happy nor unhappy. He pays only $50 a month rent, but business is bad this year. On the other hand, business has never been particularly good. Raia's children have done well--one works for Polaroid, the other for a bank--but Raia is getting old himself...
Sale ties Nixon very closely to Southern Rim support. Nixon's pals--like Smith, Bebe Rebozo, John Connally, and Walter Annenburg--are all from that peculiar class of men with new money made outside the Eastern establishment. They cling to what Gary Wills in Nixon Agonistes called "the iron morality of the rails", the conviction that through hard work, unimpeded by traditional ethics, success achieved...
...Iron Maiden. Daltrey's way has twice coincided with the tortuous path of Russell, whose wide-screen fantasies appear excessive even against the standards of the rock world. In Tommy, Daltrey was imprisoned in an Iron Maiden constructed out of hypodermic needles. Lisztomania begins with Roger frenetically kissing the breasts of the Countess Marie in time to an amuck metronome, a scene that the star remembers vividly. "It was the first day on the set, and no one knew anybody else. Ken yelled, 'O.K., Roger, take off your clothes, get in bed and have an orgasm...
...Pikola's estranged wife Thea, an alcoholic who was once "the most touchingly unsuccessful singer who ever appeared on stage to entertain German troops," and the narrator's father Ludwig, who earned his living during the war by printing postcards of soldiers who had won the Iron Cross. All the characters are revealed as victims, afflicted by memories of what they suffered or what they inflicted. But there is one more victim of this curious book: the author himself. Berlin's "entertaining" plot is a kind of strategy for evading the very horrors he has resurrected...