Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though geographically remote and relatively small, the Viet Nam conflict has divided and disconcerted the nation more than any other single issue since the pre-Pearl Harbor debate over...
...Useful criticism is necessary and helpful. But naive, ridiculous arguments as "Why should the U.S. engage in a war halfway around the world?" are irrational. Does anyone remember Pearl Harbor, Stalin's abortive promises at Yalta, the Communization of Eastern Europe? Maybe Korea rings a bell...
Many of the prominent Negroes who have taken white spouses have come from the laissez-faire world of show business: Lena Home, Pearl Bailey, Paul Robeson, Eartha Kitt, Harry Belafonte and Sammy Davis Jr. Some civil rights activists, such as James Farmer, formerly chief of CORE, and the late Walter White, the N.A.A.C.P.'s longtime executive secretary, went the same route. Massachusetts' Senator Edward Brooke has an Italian wife, but the wedding was long ago and far away from public view; by the time it became noteworthy, Negro Brooke, rather than his Caucasian spouse, had led the family...
...real problem is how to find one's car in the parking lot at the five and dime. The answer is to add a homey little touch-up. Tony Martin's Rolls has a special $1,000-plus finish called "pearl metallic," but it is really ground-up fish scales. The late Marie Macdonald had platinum-dust paint on her Caddy, but Elvis Presley has diamond dust on his. For further easy identification, Presley's car sports a yacht-style rear-seat lounge, portholes, gold lame drapes, gold curtains, gold mouton carpeting, gold-plated telephone...
...Ross walk woodenly through theirs. Estelle Winwood makes an all-too-brief appearance as a nutty ailurophile. About the only fun in Games is the eye-beguiling set-supposedly a Manhattan brownstone at 11 East 64th Street, equipped with penny-arcade machines, fun-house mirrors, pre-Columbian sculpture, a pearl-inlaid bed, and what must be the most blood-drenched elevator between Fifth and Madison...