Word: luring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dowries are as old as the country itself. In rural Greece and its islands, nubile maidens are decked out on feast days in necklaces, bracelets and headdresses of old gold coins as well as silver and heirloom jewelry, the better to lure would-be suitors. In Epirus in northern Greece, a bride goes to her wedding on horseback, carrying jewels in a casket; in Crete, the dowry often follows her on a mule train. In Athens, a monthly newspaper called Arranged Marriage provides a kind of form chart of the financial attractions available in the marketplace of love. (Sample entry...
...sign of weakness. One caption says that the U.S. had won the Vietnam war but "lost it during the Paris Peace Conference and with the help of gutless Congress." Most of the articles carry the reader along with violence or sensationalism. Features on weapons are geared to lure gun fanatics the way Motor Trend courts auto freaks. They go into exquisite detail. One review of a new pistol notes that "the front strap is serrated, a big help when the gun hand is wet sweaty or bloody." What? Me obsessed with destruction...
...bars, especially those that feature oversize screens, Super Sunday is boom time. In a restaurant/discotheque hard by the u.C.L.A. campus, students have their choice of three seven-foot screens on three separate floors. In no-longer-teetotaling-on-the-Sabbath Atlanta, bar owners plan to discount drinks, hoping to lure patrons away from their home TV sets...
S.O.Seattle. Unlike other cities that promote ad campaigns to lure tourists, Seattle is waging a battle to persuade people who live in the city to stay in the city. Six 30-sec. commercial spots, being aired free of charge by the three major commercial TV stations, emphasize the theme that Seattle is "an interesting place to live." One spot depicts a rush-hour traffic jam with the single spoken message: "If you lived in Seattle, you'd be home by now." The commercials were made for less than $2,000 of public money-and, say city officials, will have...
...give in to crass, commercial lure...