Word: musk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleasing of a flute, certain crabs glide out of their caves and sit listening under water. Mosquitoes of some breeds collect on people playing flutes. Lions fly into panic, dogs sink into bliss-though only when the flute is played in the key of C minor. In China, the musk deer is hunted with a Judas flute, which the deer meekly follows to its doom...
...finding adventure of sorts in the simple business of walking down stairs or directing traffic in darkened streets. Adventurers are driven to figure out ever new, ever more outlandish forms of excitement, from using jet engines to shoot up, not down, the wicked rapids of the Colorado River, to musk-ox wrangling. The latter was said to be impossible since the musk ox is a strong, quick animal with a very short temper. But John Teal, a Harvard man who did graduate work in anthropology and geography at Yale, captured 67 musk oxen on Nunivak Island in the Bering...
...Among them: onions, okra, radishes, lettuce, cabbage, kohlrabi, carrots, beets, tomatoes, rhubarb, sweet corn, potatoes, turnips, snap beans, squash, cucumbers, zucchini, sweet potatoes, musk melon, watermelon, strawberries, raspberries, eggplant, pumpkin, Brussels sprouts, parsley...
...dresses. She owns a dozen fur coats, a Goya, a Renoir, a Fiat and a Rolls-Royce. She applies her perfume to her clothes, rather than to her skin. Her favorite scent is a mixture of geraniol, rhodinol, cedryl, acetate, jasmine, geranium, santal, patchouli, oak moss and Tibetan musk. It is called "Madame Rochas...
Moss & Tibetan Musk. She makes it a point always to be at her desk by 9 a.m., works a ten-hour day five days a week, and spends her weekends with her husband and 19-year-old daughter Sophie at their country house, 40 miles south of Paris. Once a 13th century priory, the house is furnished in Louis XVI style. "It's rather rustic," says Mme. Rochas. Things are less rustic back home in Paris, where the dominant colors are blue and red. "In blue I find repose," explains Mme. Rochas, "whereas the violence of red refreshes...