Word: pith
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response was, well, intemperate: a photo of what appeared to be an African child kissing the rear end of a cow and a cheeky suggestion that Schleuning might direct her energies to eradicating such practices. Then came another round of correspondence, in which Fallon McElligott sent Schleuning a pith helmet, a mosquito net and an offer to pay her expenses to Africa "one way." By this time, Schleuning had alerted the St. Paul-based Minnesota Women's Consortium, which mailed copies of Fallon McElligott's letters to the press and some of the agency's clients...
...also drank to excess for decades, repeatedly attempted suicide, spent her declining years in the noisome atmosphere generated by adamantly unhousebroken dogs, and was cremated in a party dress Gloria Vanderbilt had given her as an act of charity. Leslie Frewin's The Late Mrs. Dorothy Parker revisits this pith and pathos more grandiloquently but less methodically than John Keats' 1970 volume You Might As Well Live, on which Frewin substantially relies. Just how much is hard to tell, for the new book has neither footnotes nor a chapter-by-chapter list of sources, and its sense of chronology...
...Jungle Gear. For a special friend who truly enjoys the company of elephants, snakes and water buffalo, Banana Republic (Charles Square) offers a pith helmet for $24. In case you're going into Africa, you can spend $42 on pleated front, lightweight cotton chinos at Banana Republic. For those who yearn to take to the skies, an authentic World War II flight jacket, $259, will take you up, up and away...
...questions and expect challenges. Gray has been known to wear a horse's head while lecturing. Feynman, who played a bongo-banging tribal chieftain in a student production of South Pacific, mixes serious physics with stand-up comedy. And Murph marked the centennial of Einstein's birth by donning pith helmet and chaps and riding an elephant across campus...
...this tin helmet and this army surplus uniform and drive the Jeep through my shot?" And she'd drop everything, climb into the Jeep, race out behind Camelback Mountain and helter-skelter barrel through the shot, hitting the potholes, her blond hair sticking out from under the pith helmet. And I would have my "production value." My $7 film suddenly looked like a $24 film...