Word: keg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barthelme turns a parodist's ear to several deserving sources of modern noise. A mock scenario for a film in the manner of Antonioni blurs the line between significant ennui and utter vacuity: "Shot of nail kegs at construction site. Camera peers into keg, counts nails." A news story of four Bunnies, fired from the New York Playboy Club for losing their "Bunny image," provokes a case history: "Bitsy S., an attractive white female of 28, was admitted to Bellevue Hospital complaining that she could not find, physically locate, her own body...
This from a St. Bernard? From the legendary canine hero, renowned for padding to alpine rescues with a keg of brandy around his neck? One might as well think of Florence Nightingale turning into a guerrilla. Ten years ago, such an incident would have been considered eccentric and tragic. Today the list multiplies: a four-year-old Indianapolis boy was mauled to death in January; a six-year-old Long Island boy met a similar fate in April; in July a three-year-old Bronx lad was mauled. The question now is: Has the breed degenerated...
...Turks living on Cyprus--a fact which the U.S. government can ignore just as it now ignores the repression of the Greek people by an illegal junta that is propped up by American aid. The tender peace that now exists in the entire eastern Mediterranean powder keg is threatened by Athens's illegal aggression. The smoldering strife between Greece and Turkey could explode as a result...
Some people call it a gentlemanly, sociable game. All the players call the referee "sir," and a keg of beer waits on ice at the side of the field. Both teams and the referee drink to friendship after the game...
...Powder Keg. As a result of the price runup, played-out mines are coming back to life. A young Johannesburg businessman named Desmond Fisher has bought a mine that has not been active for 13 years, and intends to bring it back into production by year's end at a cost of $1 million. At one Transvaal mine closed for a decade, 25 kilograms of gold worth about $145,000 at present prices have been produced in the past two months solely by reworking old tailings. The Grootvlei mine, which appeared to be near the end of its productive...