Word: nut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remarkable goods. Coats with real mink collars are sometimes found among last year's ratty tweeds; Ming vases have been discovered on shelves next to neo-Woolworth butter dishes. Emily Cadra, manager of Everybody's, recalls the time a customer paid $4 for a small glass nut dish, then announced triumphantly that it was made by Steuben. Another customer returned to gloat that her 50? string of pearls had been resold for $50. Veterans of thrift shops generally agree that there is only one major hazard of secondhand shopping. As Jean Halla of Evanston, Ill., puts...
...POWER, one finds a revealing analytic perspective on some of the dynamics of that barbarism. Here the fusion of the personal and the political and the creative application of structural analogy would bring Karl Marx himself to orgasm. From Mary Boykin Ches nut, a nineteenth century wife of a southern slaveholder...
General Ches nut said many people were light hearted at the ruin of the great slave owners. He quoted some one: 'They will have no Negroes now to lord it over! They can swell and peacock about and tyrannize now over only a small parcel of women and children, those only who are their very own family...
...nut? By no means. An eccentric? Certainly. Like Peter de Labigarre, who fled the French Revolution to the U.S., built the Chateau de Tivoli where the village now stands and planned a Utopian commune there, Broadmoore is a refugee-not from revolution but from what he regards as the all-pervasive standardization of American life. "I like to imagine that I am living in the 19th century," he told TIME'S Eileen Shields. "I call it an experiment. I am capable of discoursing in modern terms. But as soon as I am alone, I revert to my imagination, which...
What saves it, aside from good performances by Burt Reynolds and a thundering herd of supporting grotesques, is, of all things, a tough, tiny nut of valid social criticism...