Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French paper that purported to list the officials and their peccadilloes. (The French editor did not reply to Denning's request.) The judge found "a great deal of evidence" about fashionable parties at which "the man who serves the dinner is nearly naked except for a small square lace apron round his waist" and a black mask over his head so he "cannot be recognized." The dinner, it appears, is "followed by perverted sex orgies; the guests undress and engage in sexual intercourse one with the other, and indulge in other sexual activities of a vile and revolting nature...
Police cars poured into the block?and even as the cops plunged into the church, some enraged Negroes began throwing rocks at them. Rescue workers found a seven-foot pyramid of bricks where once the girls' bathroom stood. On top was a child's white lace choir robe. A civil defense captain lifted the hem of the robe. "Oh, my God," he cried. "Don't look!" Beneath lay the mangled body of a Negro girl...
...standard ingredients for the big historical novel: dashing cavalry officers, stalwart frontier riflemen bearded, Bible-thumping farmer-soldiers, lovely widows in crinoline and lace, loyal servants hovering, a lady who is a whore and a whore who becomes a lady, and the whole rich gumbo stirred up by The War that sets brother against brother, section against section The Civil War? Well, no; for Author Stuart Cloete (rhymes with booty), it is the Boer War, but otherwise the formula is unmistakable...
Piece Period, the troupe's second number, is a tart, witty spoof of people and places, Italian, Spanish, French, English, German. In one of its six segments, Dos, an adventure-bent minx, appears in a saucy blue corselet with a black lace fringe. She is hounded, and eventually grounded, by twin Mrs. Grundys in black mantillas who shadow her every move on angry little sandpiper feet, then go skittering triumphantly off, presumably to tell the neighbors all about...
...Friday night with a concert neither dazzling nor disappointing. In Stravinsky's "Ragtime for 11 Instruments," out-going conductor Bentley Layton displayed the wit and care his audiences have come to expect of him. Inspired playing by the whole ensemble made the lines of the work as airy as lace...