Word: namee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first ever attempted by Snowdon. Among the telling vignettes: desolate faces and palsied hands fighting dinner hour in an old folks' home; Cecil Beaton, 64, describing his "first signs , of , loneliness" and his denture problems; a' Septuagenarian marriage ceremony in which the bride momentarily forgot the name of the groom; a daughter guiltily registering her arthritic father in a home. A visit to Continental spas showed elderly people desperately trying" to reverse the clock by means of surrealistic exercise machines and lamb-gland injections. But perhaps the most poignant was the closing scene -a tottering music-hall hoofer...
...playing a sort of shuffleboard on ice, with brooms and a big rock. One man slides the rock down the ice and his teammates charge ahead of it, sweeping furiously as it approaches a series of concentric circles with a bull's-eye in the middle. Even the name sounds slightly nutty. Wasn't that something women did to their hair...
Indeed, the mild catcalls and bilious banner-waving provided last week by several hundred Greenwich Village vigilantes in front of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art seemed a slur on the once dread name of Dada. They were protesting a survey of Dada and surrealism, replete with crispy fried canapés, Galanos evening gowns, and a "bourgeois" black-tie dinner...
...declared his desire to do nate his heart, kidneys or other organs. A doctor with a dying patient wearing such a tag will phone collect to Medic Alert headquarters (the switchboard never closes) to find out what organs the patient specified for donation. The doctor can also get the name of the next of kin-from whom, under most present state laws, permission must still be sought. It will stm be up to both the doctor and Medic Alert to inform transplant surgeons that an organ donor is available...
Creation of the new monetary asset still must be ratified by countries representing four-fifths of the $20 billion in assets of the 107-nation International Monetary Fund. That process is expected to require about a year. The paper gold will go by the name Special Drawing Rights, or SDRs, and will be administered by the IMF. Though SDRs will consist entirely of entries on the IMF's ledgers, in proportion to each nation's regular IMF contributions, they will become a permanent addition to the monetary reserves of IMF countries. SDRs will be used to settle accounts...