Word: minks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dandy of American art is a woman, Louise Nevelson. Nobody is more recognizable: the fine, blade-nosed Aztec face with its monstrous false eyelashes, like clumps of mink, is as manifestly the property of an artist as Picasso's monkey mask. The sight of Nevelson under full sail-mole-colored hunting cap, peasant flounces, Chinese brocade and wolfskin, bronze pendants clanking, boar's teeth rattling-is one of the few spectacles of complete self-possession in American life; the 19th century poet who walked his live lobster on a ribbon outside the Ritz could not have looked more...
...with each player owning a small business, a credit card and $200. Bet you never met all those people in Appalachia and Harlem with small businesses and credit cards.) The object is to "parlay existing assets into more of everything that's good--like money, education, club memberships, jewelry, mink coats, and big boats--and less of everything that's not so good like divorce, high taxes and bankruptcy." Winners escape the working class, go "right through the middle class and straight to High Society and early retirement." Actually, it sounds less like reality and more like Harvard. Just...
...cute mugs, Rockwell likes 'em) and The Talking Heads (former Modern Lovers included, for those who remember, those who care) are all up-and-coming; Firefall cancelled [drat]; Styx the 4th at the Orf; at the Paradise: Southside Johnny like right now or something, Chris Hillman, Sea Level and Mink De Ville coming up, not to mention Charles Mingus and Larry Coryell, and Pheobe Snow, and the Gentle Giant. Queen is not not not not to be missed at the Garden on the 12th. I've told you too much already...
...clear that DES created a legal time bomb as well. Billions of dollars worth of damage suits against drug companies (and in a few cases against hospitals and physicians) have already been filed by apparent DES victims and their relatives. Last week former U.S. Representative Patsy T. Mink of Hawaii, now an Assistant Secretary of State, announced that she was seeking $77.7 million for herself and 1,080 other women she says were subjected to DES in a 1951-52 clinical study...
...early 1952, the women were given unmarked tablets as part of a study conducted by the late Dr. William Dieckmann. Though Dieckmann's tests actually showed the estrogenic hormone to be of no particular value in combatting miscarriages, DES continued to be prescribed until the FDA notice. Mink claims she was told that the pills were vitamins, and was not officially notified of the DES project by Chicago authorities until February 1976. She then rushed her daughter Gwendolyn, 23, to a doctor and discovered that she was afflicted with a condition known as adenosis, an abnormal cell formation also...