Word: parlorized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...band of teen-agers ambled down the avenue toward the pizza parlor in Wrangler jeans, T shirts inscribed with U.S. ARMY and Adidas sneakers. Some exhibited the glazed stare and the jerky arm-and-leg movements that are the telltale signs of a Walkman wearer. Inevitably, a few hard-eyed, Camel-smoking punk rockers slipped into the crowd, their side-cropped hair adorned with spikes on top, their black leather pants punctured by safety pins...
Surprisingly, the city was Moscow, the avenue was Gorky Street, and the pizza parlor was a pitseriya, the first in a chain of 22 that an Italian firm plans to open up around the U.S.S.R...
...promised his father to keep the family together? Does he not search endlessly to find husbands for the dark-skinned sisters? Where, then, is his free time? How can his soul soar? Still, even with these burdens, the $40-a-week rug salesman (with a shoeshine parlor on the side) manages to realize a few grandiose immigrant dreams. With his employer, the mysterious, immensely rich Mr. Fernand Sarrafian, senior partner of the Sarrafian Brothers carpet empire, Stavros investigates new worlds, from race tracks to brownstone bacchanals...
John Cheever died last month. A loss to American writing, but not really a disaster. The parlor game of ranking is seductive. We like to wonder if the Darwinian selections of Posterity will confirm our prejudices. The briefly Celebrated poet Delmore Schwartz once wrote, with a weather eye on his own coming obscurity: "No reputation is more than snowfall. It vanishes...
Surely those six girls were lovely; certainly they were daring. Lula Easton gave an oration called "Sculptors of Government." One wonders if she dwelt on Chester A. Arthur, the first voluptuary to hold the presidency. Even then he was planning to decorate the White House to resemble a gambling parlor. (Harry Truman claimed that the self-indulgent Arthur harbored a woman of sin on the premises.) Back then, Greenfield High School's Nellie Garlock may have had all this in mind when she recited "Virtue's Laurels...