Word: mattress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...putting green, a golf widower torn between selling his house and business and retiring to Florida, or buying out his rival and increasing his headaches. Informed that she is too meddlesomely possessive, Mama joins daughter on the couch in her own folksy way: "I like a harder mattress." The kindly psychoanalyst offers her some open-sesame seeds of wisdom-be permissive. At play's end, everyone is (Freud should pardon the expression) well adjusted...
...generals. Some of them, like Portrait of a General (1961'), are uniformed in camouflage colors, their swollen chests decorated with real ribbons, braid and buttons. (The eyes are real watch faces.) The backgrounds, like those of most of his works, are remnants of fancy brocade, scraps of mattress ticking. He uses felt for faces, slopping on features with paint; sometimes the mouths have shards of glass for teeth, bits of lace for noses...
...July crises end abruptly. On August 2 the Gambezi U.N. delegation re-establishes native control. The next day a pea is found under Jackie Kennedy's mattress. It is removed and she recovers immediately. The following week the First Lady is featured on the covers of 1124 magazines in 65 languages. Scientific American runs a picture of the pea. Pundits announce that U.S. prestige has never been higher...
When the House committee passed the dance plans in spite of protests, the anti-mattress faction decided to fight the decision. A petition circulated yesterday afternoon demanded a House referendum on the mattress issue...
...clandestine printing shop turned out two anti-mattress leaflets to rally support for the referendum. "The Yale Dance will look for all the world like a Red Cross Evacuation Center," sneered one of the leaflets. "The whole idea of 'decorating' the dance with 'relaxing' mattresses and bedding is so ludicrous that we have to laugh...As a matter of fact, I can't think of anything more 'decorative' than a pile of grubby, Harvard-issue mattresses...