Word: minked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...posters appeared throughout Argentina hailing Isabelita as "the perfect Peronista" and "Evita's successor," the lady herself tried to look and act like "the little Madonna," as Eva was called. She has dyed her chestnut hair blonde like Evita's, she wears a silver mink coat like Evita's, she is making good-will tours like Evita's. But when Isabel accepted the vice-presidential nomination, an honor that Eva had declined in 1951, angry Peronistas began tearing out the eyes on her posters...
Members of the Led Zeppelin toss ice cubes out the windows at passing >| police cruisers and dunk mink-clad women in the swimming pool. Alice Cooper's roadies play nude football in the hallway. The J. Geils Band stages mustard and ketchup orgies in its rooms. Instead of tearing their hair, the hotel's youthful staff (average age: 24) smile benignly. The expanded room service is designed to cater to pimpled artists who prefer milkshakes with their chateaubriands. The crazy has become so commonplace that during an Electric Light Orchestra party recently, a zonked-out groupie was propped...
...investing in securities. Instead, some are caught up in an inflation-generated psychology of spending what they have on goods that seem better than money-and are putting their cash into gem stones, jewelry and gold. The affluent are also spending much for costly furs, with the result that mink coat prices are up 20% this year. Meanwhile, the increasingly wealthy Europeans and Japanese are spending their newly enriched currencies on more and more luxury goods, adding further pressures to demand-and to prices...
...given the angelic name of Gabriel and soon put to work with Philomela (namesake of the poor lady who had her tongue cut out and was turned into a nightingale). Clad in dark cat suits, they pull off various nocturnal capers. One night it is letting all the mink escape from a mink farm. Chuff notices how like the cages are to jail cells. Philomela comments: "Then it's Death Row." The next trip, they immolate a slaughterhouse. Destruction of a government installation that uses animals to test germs and nerve gases follows. They even blow up Smithfield Market...
...agency. "Then it dawned on me that I could handle people better than the schmucks in the agency making $100,000." In 1963 she formed a partnership with Agent Tom Korman, "and I've never ridden in a public conveyance since." Swathed in a pay-as-you-go mink, she set out to steal stars from the big agencies. "We preyed on people who were out of work," she laughs. "In those days I was so driven I would have booked Martin Bormann...