Word: lickly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When he allows himself to relax, as he did at Treetops, Agnew has occasionally displayed more charm and wit than he is given credit for. "A finesse that the United Nations would be proud of," he observed of the various animals taking turns at a salt lick...
...particular, is now becoming an astronomical disaster area. The blinding glow from nearby Los Angeles, for example, has rendered Mount Wilson Observatory's 100-in. telescope useless for the kind of observations of distant galaxies that once made it world-renowned. Not far behind is the 120-in. Lick Observatory reflector atop Mount Hamilton, which is rapidly being swamped by the incandescence of the San Francisco Bay Area's expanding cities and towns. Even the 200-in. Hale mirror on Mount Palomar-the world's largest telescope-may be seriously imperiled before the decade...
...that area Jackson boasts one of the most liberal voting records in the Senate. He also takes issue with Nixon on economic policies. On revenue sharing: "The Nixon Administration is misleading the states and cities into thinking they are going to get something." On inflation: "Their formula to lick high prices is to see that no one has the money to pay them." The Republican Party, he says in summation, "is a museum of threadbare ideas...
Most important is daughter Patsy, the one who attempts to lick the system by disregarding its failings, by finding four good things for every bad. She loves interior decorating, and is blithely unconscious that her metallic designs are inherited from her world. She loves skiing and swimming and horseback-riding, while ignoring the gas stations and telephone wires and Negro gardeners that surround her at the Concord...
...planner told the CRIMSON that nobody had been interested, a filthy lie. In response to my comment, a nonbeliever said, "Yeah, and Wild Man Fischer can be a Dean of Something." See what I mean? Beefheart is a much-maligned genius: an advertisement he filmed for his new album Lick My Decals Off, Baby, was refused TV airtime because it was "obscene." (It consisted of a cigarette flipping through the air in slow motion, Rockette Morton walking across the screen with a sack over his head working a hand eggbeater, Beefheart kicking over a can of white paint in slow...