Word: lilac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what she's doing," he told reporters. "She's no child." And besides, Harlech himself is not always the model of upper-crust orthodoxy. He recently snowed up at Harvard for an advisory committee meeting of the Kennedy Institute of Politics-which Jackie also attended-wearing a lilac shirt and purple...
...celebrates Janet's "nude unity of so many shades of cream and pink and lilac." But too often he mixes four-letter words with what Norman Mailer once called the "stale garlic" of his lyricism (the offense being not in the four-letter words but in the garlic). Occasionally, the garlic stands alone, as in Updike's description of a man and woman achieving climax: "So he did then travel through a palace of cloth and sliding stairways throughout the casket of perfume that
Lazar chose a program of three chestnuts - or, more accurately, two oaks separated by a lilac bush. Wagners Meistersinger Prclude, Vaughan Williams Serehade to Music, and Beethoven's Eroica...
...Victor Vintage). An album of original recordings from the late '20s with a number of rare gems-Gene Austin crooning Jeannine, I Dream of Lilac Time, Vaughn de Leath treacling out Baby Your Mother, Jack Smith whispering Me and My Shadow and Irene Bordoni French-accenting her way through Cole Porter's saucy Don't Look at Me That...
Bucharest lay stunned under the sticky assault of an 85° heat wave. Couples lounged inertly in the lilac-scented shade of the parks along Boulevard Magheru, sipped raspberry soda out of communal glasses, or took in the desultory lake breeze at the Pescarus Restaurant. Then, with an electric crackle, loudspeakers began to blare, and a tingle ran through the crowd...