Word: phantasmagoria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether the Arabs really mean it-in the Western, rational sense of meaning something-or whether they are merely caught up in a phantasmagoria of words, is beside the point. The Arabs have shown time and again that they are the prisoners of their hyperbole. Their refusal to accept Israel as a fact of life is at the bottom of the whole Middle Eastern conflict, of the war just concluded and of the diplomatic battles about to begin. If the Arabs recognized Israel, a territorial settlement would be relatively easy...
...while a little Wagnerian in style, presents the picture of a very emotional man who was driven by a capacity for total dedication, first to Communism and then to combatting Communism. But to Dr. Zeligs, Chambers was a sex freak, a gnome of evil spirit, whose life was a phantasmagoria of "psychic manipulations...
...recuperada!" shouted villagers in the fishing town of Palomares five miles away. "They have pulled it up!" In Madrid, one newspaper suggested that the recovery was a Holy Week "miracle." For Palomaresinos, the splash-out meant a return to workaday chores that will always be colored by the phantasmagoria that ensued after a bomb-laden SAC B-52 collided with a jet tanker in their skies last Jan. 17. Ever since, hundreds of airmen, many in Martian masks and protective clothing, had scoured the countryside collecting the remains of the three bombs (two burst open on impact) that fell...
...hour traffic, they disgorge far more cars than Seattle can handle. But neither newspapers nor city officials had made audible complaint-until last spring when a little-known, not-quite-two-year-old monthly magazine called Seattle warned its readers that they would soon be living in a "concrete phantasmagoria" unless the city stopped building freeways and began to concentrate on rapid transit. Alerted to the danger at last, Seattle's two newspapers, which had been busily promoting freeways, changed their minds and started calling for rapid transit. Last month the mayor asked...
Goldstein. From Lake Michigan's murkiest depths, a scruffy, bearded old tramp (Lou Gilbert) wades ashore wearing dirty long underwear. He pushes an obese violinist through the streets of Chicago in a wheelchair. He is pursued through the phallic phantasmagoria of a sausage factory by a uniformed guard until a junk sculptor (Thomas Erhart) darts to his rescue. The sculptor defeats the guard, who is ground into lunch meat...