Word: kennings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ken D. Anderson, 49, who in 1977 left as Amoco's $44,500 manager of field training in the Atlanta office, says that he was "paymaster" for a group of executives who regularly dipped into an often replenished $400,000 "training fund" that was nominally under his control. The huge pot was never audited by Amoco or Standard of Indiana accountants, or revealed to the company's out side auditors. Anderson claims to have dispensed about $1 million from 1972 to 1977 for as many as 50 of the company's southeastern regional executives...
...this, which seems clear in retrospect, got muddled up in the psychedelic Zeitgeist of the waning '60s, and then confounded even further by the buoyantly bonkers ministrations of Director Ken Russell, whose wildly successful 1975 film version of Tommy was like Busby Berkeley on a bummer. By that time, The Who was working on extensions both of Tommy's form and its themes. Quadrophenia (1973) was an even more ambitious, although less flashy, successor, a two-record chronicle of the desperate life and ironic resurrection of a poor London Mod kid in the early '60s. (It has just been released...
...Ken Basler, an area resident and one of the signers of the petition, said "Lesley has been known to move very fast. We just wanted to make sure we had protection between now and the time a permanent ordinance is adopted...
Sunlovin' Malibu Barbie and Malibu Ken ("real peek-a-boo tan and real tan line"--$5) are prepared to hit the surf. Superstar Barbie ("arms that pose like the modesl do"--$9) and Superstar Ken are dressed for opening night in Vegas. They can travel there in the Star Traveler ("ultra-deluxe scenic cruiser--$32) or on their star cycles ("the racey little scooter with super star appeal...
Barbie is well-prepared for her twenties, but we can't help wondering about Ken. There's no kissing Ken or Beautiful Bridegroom doll. How long is Ken willing to wait? Barbie is already twenty and she's only just learned how to kiss...