Word: penguin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outside the city. Auden had only recently praised Brodsky as "a poet of the first order, of whom his country should be proud." Next fall Brodsky will be poet-in-residence at the University of Michigan, and a collection of his verse will be published in English translation by Penguin Books...
...five weeks before the gala appearance in the Sheraton Carpenter ballroom. Not only were New Hampshirites confronted daily by smiling red, white, and blue placards on every street corner, but they were offered the opportunity to see a specially prepared documentary narrated by none other than Burgess Meredith, the "Penguin" of Batman fame...
...Witt still has plenty of disadvantages. The cats so far have not much impressed the bandicoots, which occasionally scamper across Jane's face at night and persist in digging up the vegetable seeds she has planted in a small garden. But she has made a friend -a penguin named Mickey Mouse -and she is beginning to feel that "this is my world and my life . . . it is so beautiful here I can't imagine Melbourne any longer." To millions of citybound Australians, Jane has become something of a heroine, but most apparently want to share her adventures vicariously...
...Chase Manhattan Bank promotion features an avuncular, sneaker-shod hippo working a computer. An ad for Irving Trust's computer service shows a wood penguin holding a high silk hat. The message: "Lease or Buy-Which suits you best?" Then there is the crane standing on one foot in an ad for Boeing Computer Service, which asks: "Looking for stability in computer services?" In an ad for CNA Insurance, a purple piglike monster with yellow wings and an orange cockscomb gobbles up dollars. The headline: "The Money Muncher. Starve it." Computer Communication's ads feature another cash-chewing...
...doubts that the hearts of three men with different physiologies would fail simultaneously. They also pointed out that at no time during the long mission did the cosmonauts complain of any harsh reaction to zero gravity. In fact, they had spent long hours on board in their so-called "Penguin" exercise suits-tight, elastic garments designed to exert muscle-toning pressure on the body. Besides, the experience of America's astronauts seemed to demonstrate that the human body can readjust after prolonged weightlessness...