Word: primped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...innovations, the state fair is too rooted in traditional carnival tackiness ever to change appreciably. Yet in these volatile days, any sort of permanence, even homespun vulgarity, has a stabilizing effect. So it is momentarily comforting to go home again and rediscover this preposterous adobe Oz, where benevolent witches primp their flocks with hot combs, and happy little people fly giddily about on magic Caterpillars and Black Widows, and raspy wizards chant tall, dark tales of the Alligator Lady who crawls on her belly like a reptile. Ah, yes, the State Fair of Texas still has the power to charm...
...desegregation and busing, the case mordantly suggests that the "ship of state" is actually the "four-door sedan of state," with the Administration and the Judiciary in the front seat, a tangle of legs simultaneously jamming on the brakes and pumping the accelerator. Behind them, the Houses of Congress primp in the rear-view mirror, snooze or practice orotund backseat driving...