Word: lid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fein asked her to help him dispose of the trunk. "I took a good drink of straight vodka, and then asked him was he sure the man was dead," Gloria testified. " 'Gloria, he's stone-cold dead,' " she quoted Fein. "He lifted the lid of the trunk and I saw part of an arm. I said. 'Spare me the gory details.'" Added Gloria: "I just wanted to be assured that I was not getting rid of a trunk with a live body...
Nominally novels, William Burroughs' works are, more precisely, potluck: the cauldron, having flipped its lid, spills nightmare fantasies, sick jokes, narcotic dreams and polemics against pushers and in favor of the apomorphine cure. And, of course, concedes the author, "obscenity is coldly added as the total weapon...
Despite the lid of censorship, there are those lucky students whose freshman advisors have let the magic number slip out in the course of cock-tail conversation, and those doubly lucky ones who, when told their number, found it was a good one. A smiling senior in the second category confided, "I've been group five for three years running, but I'm always able to say, 'I'm smart; the College had me pegged for group...
Last week the lid blew...
...Salon des Indépendants because it took up almost all the space that U.S. artists were allotted. Murphy worked tirelessly in a technique as meticulous as his detail. He used airplane linen, painstakingly mocked up his drawing before he picked up a brush. A cigar-box lid in Cocktail (1928), which splays bartenders' tools flat against the picture plane, took him four months to paint...