Word: pillowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were a burden-which, to Germans especially, it undoubtedly is. Jacob's only reprieve is in his imagination. He tells his niece a fairy tale about a commoner who cures a princess's illness by bringing her what she thinks is a cloud-a pillow-sized mass of cotton (an analogy, perhaps, to Jacob's trying to cure his neighbors by bringing them what they think is hope). The implication, indeed, is that these colorful visions persist amid the gray rubble of the ghetto just as the human spirit persists amid intolerance and oppression. But Jacob...
...other evidence of his Chicago popularity might have the pharaoh twirling in his tomb: pyramid hair styles, Cleopatra eye makeup, scarab rings, mummy bead necklaces, wallpaper sporting Egyptian goddesses, Tut towel and pillow sets. The newest disco dance is a stimulating shuffle called the King Tut Strut. One women's shop has achieved the living end in Egyptian necrophilia: its main window features a mannequin wrapped in masking tape to look like a mummy...
...returns to the East the following year. These two triumphs constitute the dramatic highlights of the first act, and Alden effectively intersperses them with marvelous anecdotes of Roosevelt's early career and hilarious scenes of a harried President Roosevelt trying to conduct affairs of state by telephone while "pillow-fighting" with his young sons (a scene where one cannot help but think of Jimmy and Amy in the Oval Office today...
When the quake waned, Stewart went back into the hotel and retrieved a pillow and a blanket for Hughes. As soon as he was made comfortable, he went to sleep...
...Rauschenberg stretched his bed quilt over an improvised frame, added a pillow, and covered both with streaks and drips of paint. The result, Bed, 1955, was to become one of the objets de scandale of American...