Word: llamas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...photographs capture the haunting beauty of sites like the ruined city of Machu Picchu, the sculptured faces of present-day Andeans and the ageless wonder of the paved Inca roads. Between them, Soustelle and Silvester manage to show why even the Spanish, who conquered the land of the haughty llama and high-soaring condor, were unable to change...
...Liberty ("As she grows older Liberty will really pour herself into her sexual relationships"). Los Angeles, which not unexpectedly is the epicenter of animalmorphism, boasts a special limousine service for pets, which is patronized by, among others, Redd Foxx's Saint Bernard and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.'s llama. There is even a pet boutique that will have a shaggy dog's excess fur made into a sweater in Scotland. Of all the cemeteries across the country that vie for the Loved One's remains, probably none celebrate death so elaborately or expensively as the Los Angeles...
...something of a living legend by the time he was 25. When sportswriters got tired of extolling his exploits on the field, they zeroed in on his between-games lifestyle. There were photos and stories about his bachelor pad on Manhattan's East Side, which featured a white llama rug-and, purportedly, some of the unholiest debaucheries since Petronius' last house party. No American beauty could regard her career as complete without a date with "Broadway Joe" (a bad geographical misnomer, because Namath's favorite haunts-Dudes 'n' Dolls, Mister Laffs, P.J. Clarke...
...Norman Van Brocklin piled up 554 yds. against the feeble New York Yankees in 1951, while Y.A. Tittle of the Giants gained 504 yds. against the equally hapless Washington Redskin team in 1962. -Namath has since moved to another East Side apartment near more sedate Park Avenue; the llama rug is gone...
...courier who fell afoul of customs was Carole Dale Robinson, a 19-year-old model from San Francisco. She arrived at Mexico City airport last March clutching a stuffed toy llama from Peru. Customs officers split it open?and found 8 Ibs. of pure cocaine inside. She protested that she was merely carrying the toy as a favor for someone else, but in fact U.S. agents had been watching her since she left California. She is now awaiting sentence, which may run as high as seven years...