Word: ostriches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel it?" he asks. "In my stomach and thighs," says Leslie. "Oh, boy!" says Dennis. "I want you to just breathe in and out, really hard." Everybody presses down on Leslie. "You're hurting my stomach," she groans. Finally the spirit is out; the group brushes it away with ostrich plumes. "All you have to do now is live, Leslie," says Dennis. She limps downstairs, and he smiles: "It works every time...
...land was agonizingly slow. Women in vividly patterned dresses flung themselves onto the road ahead of the hearse; men and boys clung to the hood and the body. Other Luos sat half naked by the road, smeared with the traditional clay of mourning, while witch doctors in white ostrich feathers and monkey-skin skirts pranced among them. Trucks, cars and buses decorated with palm fronds and jacaranda branches brought thousands more to vantage points along...
Perhaps he was. If so, he did a good job. And in doing a good job, he caused a lot more frustration. For those at the rally all the satisfaction of voting against the hated Nixon was gone. Maybe the simplest solution is ostrich-like ignorance: if you want to hate...
...Laurent peekaboo dress that was such a stopper in the Paris fall fashion shows. Last week they saw it in the flesh at Alexander's couture-copy show. Out came the model, preening prettily in a floor-length drift of sheer black chiffon, with only a ruff of ostrich feathers around the hip to save it from moving out of the controversial category into the condemned. For customers who want the concoction, Alexander's was ready to supply a cop-out-a body stocking that would make the dress perfectly proper...
...people like Reader Lale. And behind their defense of faceless conformity lies a paralyzing fear. Fear of change. Fear of humor. And fear of disturbing their comfortable, fuzzy thinking. I, too, deplore the self-indulgent hedonism and head-in-the-sand anarchy gaining ground among youth today. But an ostrich is an ostrich, whether a soft-brained young anarchist or a soft-living non-think suburbanite. These birds may look different. They may even fight each other. But they are different only like male and female. And together they will breed destruction...